12 research outputs found
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
‘Making time’: Long-distance marriages and the temporalities of the transnational family
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