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Food and Health Security among Burmese Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore amid Myanmar’s ‘Triple Crisis’

Migrating overseas to work as domestic workers is an increasingly important livelihood strategy for capital-poor women in Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar. However, the recent COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest in Myanmar has highlighted the entrenched precarities and uncertainties attached to this migration strategy. The health crisis has further heightened the importance of remittances […]

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Burmese Migrant Domestic Workers’ Foodwork and Biopedagogies in Pandemic Singapore

COVID-19 not only increased food insecurity across the globe but has also given rise to pandemic-induced “biopedagogies,” a concept premised on conflating health with instructions on the “bios,” including how to live healthily, what to eat, and how much. Based on 24 qualitative interviews with low-waged migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Singapore hailing from Myanmar,

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Migrant Domestic Workers and Transnational Foodcare Chains in Pandemic Times

In view of heightened food security issues in COVID-19 times, we employ a transnational lens to give bifocal attention to migrant women’s experiences during the pandemic, as they sought to secure access to food for themselves and for left-behind children and family members in Indonesia and the Philippines. In conjunction with the classic idea of global care

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Migrant Domestic Workers and the Household Division of Intimate Labour: Reconfiguring Eldercare Relations in Singapore

As Singapore confronts escalating demands for eldercare labour in the face of rapid ageing, families are increasingly resorting to market-based, gender-normative options predicated on the care-chain migration of women to resolve familial care deficits. At the same time, given the prevalence of discourses of Asian familialism, the abdication of eldercare responsibilities to non-familial caregivers whose

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Sustainability and Resilience in Migration Governance for a Post-pandemic World

This paper discusses the contradictions and tensions in the governance of international migration that the pandemic has exposed. It starts by defining the pandemic emergency as a wicked problem. Even though wicked problems usually do not have solutions, we argue that building resilience and sustainability as key features in migration governance can help address this

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Managing the Non-Integration of Transient Migrant Workers: Urban Strategies of Enclavisation and Enclosure in Singapore

Research on migration in arrival cities, particularly in the west, has traditionally focused on spatial formations such as ‘ethnic enclaves’ or ‘immigrant neighbourhoods’ in order to investigate questions around assimilation, integration and settlement issues relating to more permanent forms of migration. By shifting attention to the cities of migration in Asia that operate largely under

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Food Security among Myanmarese Domestic Workers in Singapore

The project aims to investigate whether migrants’ increased personal food security and self-care needs during pandemic times negatively impact migrants’ remittance-sending behaviour and caring practices for left-behind family members. It aims to address the following empirical questions across ten key areas: 1) Questions related to FDWs cooking and food preparation practices vis-à-vis that of the

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