Dr. Megha Amrith

    • Vita

    Megha Amrith war von 2018 bis 2024 Leiterin der Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe "Ageing in a Time of Mobility". Sie ist seit 2025 Professorin an der Universität Maastricht und war 2025 Gast am MPI-MMG. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehört die Arbeit von Migrant*innen, Pflege, Altern, Ungleichheiten, Zugehörigkeit und Staatsbürgerschaft, mit besonderem Fokus auf Südostasien, aber auch unter Rückgriff auf vergleichende ethnographische Perspektiven. Sie ist Autorin der Monographie "Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia" (NIAS Press, 2017), Mitherausgeberin des Bandes "Gender, Work and Migration" (mit Sahraoui, Routledge, 2018) und hat ihre Arbeit in Zeitschriften wie Global Networks, Ethnos, Citizenship Studies und Urban Studies veröffentlicht. Megha Amrith promovierte im Rahmen eines Gates-Cambridge-Stipendiums in Sozialanthropologie an der University of Cambridge. Bevor sie zum MPI-MMG kam, hatte sie ein Postdoktoranden-Stipendium am Centre for Metropolitan Studies an der Universität von São Paulo (2012-2013) und ein Forschungsstipendium am United Nations University Institute for Globalization, Culture and Mobility, Barcelona (2014 - 2017).

    Hier finden Sie Meghas Insight-Video “Ageing Across Borders”

    Forschungsprojekte


    Publikationen

    Zeitschriftenausgaben

    Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (Eds.). (2023). Special issue: Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus [Special Issue]. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4). Link

    Sakti, V. K., & Amrith, M. (Eds.). (2022). Living in the here and now: Extended temporalities of forced migration [Special Issue]. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43(4). Link

    Monografien

    Amrith, M. (2017). Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.

    Sammelwerke

    Amrith, M., Sakti, V. K., & Sampaio, D. (Eds.). (2023). Aspiring in later life: Movements across time, space, and generations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Link

    Amrith, M., & Sahraoui, N. (Eds.). (2018). Gender, work and migration: Agency in gendered labour settings. London: Routledge. Link

    Zeitschriftenartikel

    Amrith, M., Neal, Z. P., & Waters, J. L. (2023). Editorial. Global Networks, 23(1), 5–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12422

    Amrith, M. (2023). Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore. Global Networks, 23(1), 203–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12394

    Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (2023). Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4), 927–944. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2115624

    Amrith, M., & Coe, C. (2022). Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies. American Anthropologist, 124(2), 307–318. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13688

    Sakti, V. K., & Amrith, M. (2022). Introduction: Living in the ‘Here and Now’: Extended Temporalities of Forced Migration. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43(4), 457–463. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2088084

    Amrith, M. (2022). The Temporal Borders of Transnational Belonging: Aging Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(14), 1912–1927. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221075258

    Amrith, M. (2021). Ageing bodies, precarious futures: The (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time. Mobilities, 16(2), 249–261. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1885834

    McKearney, P., & Amrith, M. (2021). Care. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.29164/21care

    Amrith, M. (2021). The linear imagination, stalled: Changing temporal horizons in migrant journeys. Global Networks, 21(1), 127–145. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12280

    Amrith, M. (2020). The Substance of Care: Ethical Dilemmas in Migrant Medical Labour. Ethnos, 85(2), 241–257. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1542410

    Amrith, M. (2018). Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts. Urban Studies, 55(3), 522–537. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016631907

    Amrith, M., & Amrith, S. (2016). Migration, Health and Inequality in Asia. Development and Change, 47(4), 840–860. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12242

    Amrith, M. (2015). Pathways to urban citizenship for low-income migrants in São Paulo. Citizenship Studies, 19(6–7), 649–663. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2015.1023260

    Amrith, M. (2015). Urban Marginality and the Affective Lives of Migrants. Third Text, 29(6), 459–472. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2016.1236459

    Amrith, M. (2013). Encountering Asia: Narratives of Filipino Medical Workers on Caring for Other Asians. Critical Asian Studies, 45(2), 231–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2013.792572

    Amrith, M. (2010). ‘They Think We are Just Caregivers’: The Ambivalence of Care in the Lives of Filipino Medical Workers in Singapore. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 11(3–4), 410–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.511631

    Amrith, M., Johnson, J., Martin, D., Murawski, M., & Nelms, T. (2008). Harvesting Failure in the Field: An Ethnographic Apprenticeship in Coping with the Unexpected. Cambridge Anthropology, 28(1), 61–82.

    Beiträge in Sammelwerken

    Amrith, M., Sakti, V. K., & Sampaio, D. (2023). Introduction. In M. Amrith, V. K. Sakti, & D. Sampaio (Eds.), Aspiring in Later Life Movements across Time, Space, and Generations (pp. 1–16). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

    Amrith, M. (2023). Letting go and looking ahead: The aspirations of middle-aged migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong. In M. Amrith, V. K. Sakti, & D. Sampaio (Eds.), Aspiring in Later Life Movements across Time, Space, and Generations. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

    Amrith, M. (2023). Migrant eldercare workers. In S. Torres & A. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook on Migration and Ageing (pp. 217–227). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

    Amrith, M. (2022). Migrant Eldercare Workers in Asia. In S. Irudaya Rajan (Ed.), Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy: Perspectives from Asia (pp. 1–14). Singapore: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_91-1

    Amrith, M. (2018). Dignity of labour: Activism among Filipina domestic workers in Singapore and Barcelona. In M. Amrith & N. Sahraoui (Eds.), Gender, work and migration: Agency in gendered labour settings (pp. 65–82). London: Routledge.

    Amrith, M. (2017). Migration and urbanisation in contemporary Asia: Addressing urban inequalities and promoting social sustainability. In F. Caprotti & L. Yu (Eds.), Sustainable Cities in Asia. Routledge.

    Amrith, M. (2015). Cities as Lived Spaces: Making Sense of Everyday Migrant Sociability in Academic Discourses on Migration and Cities. In P. Nair & T. Bloom (Eds.), Migration Across Boundaries: Linking Research to Practice and Experience (pp. 163–182). London: Routledge.

    Sonstige

    Amrith, M., Sakti, V. K., & Sampaio, D. (Eds.). (2023). Aspiring in later life: Movements across time, space, and generations. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

    Amrith, M. (2023). Reimagining Social Protection: Financialized Futures Among Ageing Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia. Bielefeld Anthropological Papers on Issues of the Global World, (2), 18.

    Amrith, M. (2020, April 27). Enduring indifference and the vital labour of migrant domestic workers.

    Amrith, M. (2020, September 16). The Two Singapores: Rethinking Migrant Domestic Care Work in COVID-19 (W. Al Mamun, Interviewer) [Onlinetext]. Retrieved from https://somatosphere.com/2020/two-singapores-rethinking-migrant-domestic-care-work.html/

    Amrith, M. (2019, April 15). Care. Retrieved from EASA Network of Ethnographic Theory website: https://networkofethnographictheory.wordpress.com/care/

    Amrith, M., & Sampaio, D. (2019, July). Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ Exhibition. Retrieved from Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity website: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/443790/blog-amrith-sampaio-moments-of-ageing

    Amrith, M. (2018, December). Ageing Bodies: Retiring from Temporary Lives. Retrieved from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity website: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/243715/blog-amrith-ageing-bodies

    Amrith, M. (2018). Ageing in a time of mobility: A research agenda. MMG Working Papers, 18(01), 29.

    Amrith, M. (2018, December). Ageing in a Time of Mobility: An Introduction. Retrieved from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity website: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/244310/blog-amrith-ageing-in-a-time-of-mobility-introduction

    Amrith, M., & Sahraoui, N. (Eds.). (2018). Gender, work and migration: Agency in gendered labour settings. Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY: Routledge.

    Cheesman, N. (2016). Caring for Strangers Filipino Medical Workers in Asia. In New Books in Southeast Asian Studies. Retrieved from https://newbooksnetwork.com/megha-amrith-caring-for-strangers-filipino-medical-workers-in-asia-nias-press-2016/

    Amrith, M. (2015). The Empowerment of Domestic Workers: Female Agency in the Asian Region (Policy Report No. 03/01; p. 14). Barcelona: United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility. Retrieved from United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility. website: https://i.unu.edu/media/gcm.unu.edu/publication/2752/REPORT-0306_OK-ONLINE.pdf

    Amrith, M. (2015). The Invisible Labour of Female Migrants in the Care Sector (Policy Report No. 03/06; p. 24). Barcelona: United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility. Retrieved from United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility. website: https://i.unu.edu/media/gcm.unu.edu/publication/2752/REPORT-0306_OK-ONLINE.pdf

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