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DESCRIPTION:Since the 1970s\, a significant number of migrant domestic work
 ers from the Asian region (primarily from the Philippines\, Indonesia\, In
 dia\, and Sri Lanka) have worked to sustain households in cities such as S
 ingapore and Hong Kong. Amidst public debate about the ever-increasing nee
 d for migrant domestic workers to assist with eldercare in Asia\, we hear 
 little about their own futures. Based on ethnographic research\, this talk
  traces the journeys of an older generation of migrant domestic workers wh
 o have spent much of their working lives abroad on temporary contracts. Gi
 ven the restrictive long-term residence policies in the places in which th
 ey work\, migrant domestic workers must return to their countries of origi
 n upon retirement. The talk focuses on the ‘ends’ of transnational car
 e\, considering both the individual\, collective and familial life project
 s and aspirations that long-term domestic workers have sought to cultivate
  in their years of work abroad\; as well as the new aspirations that agein
 g domestic workers develop as they imagine their futures towards the end o
 f their transnational working lives. I argue that the aspirations of migra
 nt women\, while initially stated in linear terms\, rarely settle\; rather
 \, they take on novel and ambivalent forms that are often temporally at od
 ds with the restrictive migration regimes which shape their transnational 
 care trajectories.
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LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
ORGANIZER;CN="Universität Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology":mailto:
SUMMARY:Megha Amrith: "The Ends of Transnational Care: Aspirations of Agein
 g Migrant Domestic Workers"
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