Our history
The APMM started out as Asia Pacific Mission for Migrant Filipinos (APMMF) founded as a pioneer in grassroots movement building in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. It was founded in response to the growing number of Filipinos leaving their families behind to find work and eke out a living abroad. The Mission For Migrant Workers (HK) Society, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines and the Anglican mission of St. John’s Cathedral started the then-APMMF.
APMM co-led consultations with Filipino migrant organisations and migrant-serving institutions not only in the region but across the globe that led to the establishment of Migrante International, the first-ever global alliance of Filipino migrant organizations.
In the year 2000, after an in-depth evaluation, APMMF was re-named Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) to expand its work to and with other nationalities of migrants and migrant workers across the region.
Believing in the collective strength of empowered migrants, the APMM continued its partnership and collaboration with grassroots migrant organisations in the region while linking up with other regional networks of migrants and advocates which led, in 2008, to the formation of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), the first global alliance of grassroots organizations of migrants, refugees and displaced peoples.
