This article investigates the impact of migration on parent-child ties. It draws upon in-depth interviews with 15 Vietnamese mothers and 20 children (ages 16–25) who either migrated to or were born in the Czech Republic. It asks: How do first-generation mothers and second-generation children make sense of their parents’ migration in terms of their relationships with each other? What is the meaning of migration for mothers’ and children’s comprehension of parenthood and motherhood? The analysis of the interviews illuminates the tensions and ambivalences in narratives about migration and post-migratory situations. The article benefits from the inclusion of two perspectives—mothers’ and children’s—and contributes to scholarship on family migration, migrant childhood and migrant parenthood.

本文研究了移民对父母与子女的关系的影响。它对15个越南母亲和20个孩子（16-25岁）进行了深度访谈，这些母亲要么移民到捷克共和国，要么在捷克出生。它问：第一代母亲和第二代孩子如何通过父母之间的关系来理解父母的迁徙？迁移对于母亲和孩子对父母和母亲的理解有什么意义？对访谈的分析揭示了关于移民和移民后情况的叙述中的紧张和矛盾。这篇文章受益于母亲和儿童两个观点的纳入，并为有关家庭移民，移民童年和移民父母身份的奖学金做出了贡献。