Megha Amrith is 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 (MPI-MMG) 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, belonging and citizenship, primarily in Southeast Asia, but also drawing upon comparative ethnographic perspectives beyond the region. She is author of the monograph...
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Expertise

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

Roles

  • 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

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

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2018
Journal Name Urban Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
1 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
4 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
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5 Journal Article

Gender, Work and Migration

Authors Nina Sahraoui, Megha Amrith
6 Book

Suggested Research

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

Authors Megha Amrith
Year 2021
Journal Name Mobilities
2 Journal Article

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

Authors MEGHA AMRITH
Year 2021
Journal Name Global Networks
3 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
4 Journal Article

Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus

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