Doing Family in "Times of Migration": Care Temporalities and Gender Politics in Southeast Asia

10.1080/24694452.2020.1723397ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHER

Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK

10.1080/1369183x.2023.2279731Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies1-19complete

Webs of Care: Qualitative GIS Research on Aging, Mobility, and Care Relations in Singapore

10.1080/24694452.2020.1807900Annals of the American Association of Geographers1-2

Renegotiating Migration Experiences: Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore and Use of Information Communication Technologies

This article considers the ways in which information communication technologies (ICTs) are embedded in foreign domestic workers' migration experiences in Singapore. Due to Singapore's stringent migration regime, whereby foreign domestic workers are required to live-in with their employers, domestic workers often find their access and use of ICTs subject to a high degree of surveillance and regulation by their employers. Using Massey's notion of power geometry, we consider how increasing reliance upon communications technology by both domestic workers and their employers necessitates a renegotiation of social relations in the household. In doing so, this article demonstrates that foreign domestic workers' negotiations of ICTs are 'always ongoing', creating fluid possibilities for these women to exercise a greater sense of agency within the realm of their daily lives. Yet, we highlight that gaining access to ICTs also requires women to negotiate the inequalities inscribed upon their position as a foreign domestic worker