Megha Amrith has been the leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at MPI-MMG since January 2018. Her research focuses on migrant labour, care, ageing, gender, inequalities, belonging and citizenship, primarily in Southeast Asia, but also drawing upon comparative ethnographic perspectives beyond the region. She is author of the monograph “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2017) and her current research is on ageing migrant domestic...
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Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Research Institute, Götttingen , Germany
Research Group Leader 'Ageing in a Time of Mobility'
Research
Ageing bodies, precarious futures: the (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Mobilities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The linear imagination, stalled: changing temporal horizons in migrant journeys
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ageing in a Time of Mobility: A Research Agenda
| Year | 2018 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia
| Year | 2017 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Pathways to urban citizenship for low-income migrants in São Paulo
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘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 |
Gender, Work and Migration
| Authors | Nina Sahraoui, Megha Amrith | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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