How I came to chronicle three generations of a single family—from a Manila shantytown to suburban Texas.
Jason DeParle
Follow Jason on Twitter @JasonDeParle. Jason DeParle is a reporter for the New York Times and the author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century, from which parts of this essay are adapted. He was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 1987 to 1989.
