Megha Amrith is Associate Professor of Globalisation and Transnationalism at Maastricht University and PI of the ERC-CoG project 'WELL-ASIA'. She was leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity from 2017-2024 and since 2022, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Global Networks: a journal of transnational affairs. Her research focuses on migrant labour, care, ageing, gender, inequalities, and wellbeing primarily...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 575
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4662-5797
Twitter https://twitter.com/@meghaamrith

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Geographies

Roles

  • Maastricht University

    University, Maastricht, Netherlands
    Associate Professor

Research

Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus

Authors Dora Sampaio, Megha Amrith
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
1 Journal Article

Introduction: Living in the ‘Here and Now’: Extended Temporalities of Forced Migration

Authors Victoria K. Sakti, Megha Amrith
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
Citations (WoS) 5
2 Journal Article

The Temporal Borders of Transnational Belonging: Aging Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2022
Citations (WoS) 6
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
3 Journal Article

Ageing bodies, precarious futures: the (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2021
Journal Name Mobilities
4 Journal Article

The linear imagination, stalled: changing temporal horizons in migrant journeys

Authors MEGHA AMRITH
Year 2020
Journal Name Global Networks
5 Journal Article

Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2016
Journal Name Urban Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
8 Journal Article

Pathways to urban citizenship for low-income migrants in São Paulo

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2015
Journal Name Citizenship Studies
Citations (WoS) 3
9 Journal Article

‘They Think We are Just Caregivers’: The Ambivalence of Care in the Lives of Filipino Medical Workers in Singapore

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2010
Journal Name The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
10 Journal Article

Gender, Work and Migration

Authors Nina Sahraoui, Megha Amrith
Taxonomy View Taxonomy Associations
11 Book

Suggested Research

No Items Found!

We couldn't find any research matching the name "Megha Amrith"!

You can manually select items by searching for them on the Database Page and clicking the "Claim My Item" button for each item you want to claim. Claimed items will then appear under the Research tab on your profile.

Ask us