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Far from home, close to grief: why millions of Filipino migrants dread Undas

South China Morning Post ·

For over three decades, Dolores Balladares Pelaez has lived and worked in Hong Kong without once returning to the Philippines for Undas, the annual two-day observance honouring the dead. This year, she is arranging prayers from afar for her late father and four siblings, but will once again miss the…

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