Publications of Megha Amrith

Journal Article (12)

2023
Journal Article
Amrith, M., Neal, Z. P., & Waters, J. L. (2023). Editorial. Global Networks, 23(1), 5–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12422
Journal Article
Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (2023). Editorial introduction: 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
2022
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
Amrith, M. (2022). Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore. Global Networks, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12394
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
Walton-Roberts, M., Amrith, M., & Sæther, B. (2022). [Review of:] Doctoral thesis review - Anmeldelse av doktoravhandling. Aslaug Gotehus. 2022. Agency and Temporality in Skilled Migration: Decisions, Experiences and Practices of Filipino Nurses in Norway and the Philippines. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 76(3), 192–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2022.2073258
2021
Journal Article
Amrith, M. (2021). The linear imagination, stalled: changing temporal horizons in migrant journeys. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 21(1), 127–145. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12280
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
McKearney, P., & Amrith, M. (2021). Care. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. CEA. https://doi.org/10.29164/21care
2020
Journal Article
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
2018
Journal Article
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

Book (1)

2017
Book
Amrith, M. (2017). Caring for strangers: Filipino medical workers in Asia (Vol. 134). Copenhagen: NIAS Press. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-C325-4

Working Paper (2)

2023
Working Paper
Amrith, M. (2023, October). Reimagining social protection: Financialized futures among ageing migrant domestic workers in Asia. Retrieved from https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/soziologie/fakultaet/arbeitsbereiche/ab6/ag_sozialanthropologie/bielefeld-anthropological/published-papers/2-reimagining-social-prot/
2018
Working Paper
Amrith, M. (2018). Ageing in a time of mobility: a research agenda. Retrieved from https://www.mmg.mpg.de/62099/wp-18-01

Issue (2)

2023
Issue
Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (Eds.). (2023). Special issue: Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Vol. 49, pp. 927–1081). Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/49/4
2022
Issue
Sakti, V. K., & Amrith, M. (Eds.). (2022). Living in the here and now: Extended temporalities of forced migration. Journal of Intercultural Studies (Vol. 43, pp. 457–533). London: Taylor & Francis. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-A7B8-A

Book Review (1)

2019
Book Review
Amrith, M. (2019). [Review of:] Domestic economies: women, work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles, by Susanna Rosenbaum. Anthropological forum. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2018.1553702

Contribution to a Collected edition (5)

2023
Contribution to a Collected edition
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 (pp. 39–55). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Retrieved from https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/aspiring-in-later-life/9781978830400
Contribution to a Collected edition
Amrith, M. (2023). Migrant eldercare workers. In S. Torres & A. Hunter (Eds.), Handbook on Migration and Ageing. (pp. 217–227). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-on-migration-and-ageing-9781839106767.html
Contribution to a Collected edition
Amrith, M., Sakti, V. K., & Sampaio, D. (2023). Introduction [Aspiring in later life]. 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. Retrieved from https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/aspiring-in-later-life/9781978830400/
2022
Contribution to a Collected edition
Amrith, M. (2022). Migrant eldercare workers in Asia. In S. Irudaya Rajan (Ed.), Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy: Perspectives from Asia. Singapore: Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_91-1
2018
Contribution to a Collected edition
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. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Work-and-Migration-Agency-in-Gendered-Labour-Settings/Amrith-Sahraoui/p/book/9780415788526

Collected Edition (2)

2023
Collected Edition
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. https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978830431
2018
Collected Edition
Amrith, M., & Sahraoui, N. (Eds.). (2018). Gender, work and migration: Agency in gendered labour settings. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315225210

Blog Post (4)

2019
Blog Post
Amrith, M. (2019, April). [Blog post:]Care. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5E90-F
Blog Post
Amrith, M., & Sampaio, D. (2019, July). [Blog post:] Reflections on the ‘Grey is the New Pink: Moments of Ageing’ exhibition. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0005-5EA5-8
2018
Blog Post
Amrith, M. (2018, December). [Blog post:] Ageing in a time of mobility: An introduction. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-B868-8
Blog Post
Amrith, M. (2018, December). [Blog post:] Ageing bodies: Retiring from temporary lives. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-0EE7-7

Interview (1)

2020
Interview
Amrith, M. (2020, September 16). The two Singapores: Rethinking migrant domestic care work in COVID-19. Somatosphere. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-424A-B
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