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
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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
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Geographies
Roles
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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 in a Time of Mobility: A Research Agenda
| Year | 2018 |
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Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia
| Year | 2017 |
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Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Pathways to urban citizenship for low-income migrants in São Paulo
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
‘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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Gender, Work and Migration
| Authors | Nina Sahraoui, Megha Amrith |
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Suggested Research
The Temporal Borders of Transnational Belonging: Aging Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2022 |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 |
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Ageing bodies, precarious futures: the (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time
| Authors | Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Mobilities |
The linear imagination, stalled: changing temporal horizons in migrant journeys
| Authors | MEGHA AMRITH |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus
| Authors | Dora Sampaio, Megha Amrith |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
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 |