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Migration often requires the renegotiation of familial and gender roles as immigrants encounter potentially competing values and demands. Employing ethnographic methods and including in-depth inter-viewing and participant observation, the authors explore the experiences of29 South Asian and Chinese Canadian female family caregivers. Care-giving was central to their role as women and members of their ethnocultural community. The women were often engaged in paid labor that compressed the time avail-able to fulfill their duties as caregivers. Women's role in the transmission of cultural values that serve to shore up the boundaries of their ethnic community did not allow for significant renegotiation of their care-giving responsibilities despite disrupted family networks and increased demands. These care-giving arrangements are more costly to women in Canada than in their countries of origin.