Abstract In this introductory article, we emphasize the significance of considering politics and practices transnationalism as they impinge on social morphology transnational 'Asian' families. Three strands work in arena are discussed. First, families draw ideologically laden imaginaries to give coherence notions belonging despite physical dispersal their members; these may turn act a conservative force exerting control over particular female members, an increasing salient issue given...

As a significant supplier of labour migrants, Southeast Asia presents itself as an important site for the study children in transnational families who are growing up separated from at least one migrant parent and sometimes cared by 'other mothers'. Through often-neglected voices left-behind children, we investigate impact parental migration resulting reconfiguration care arrangements on subjective well-being migrants' two Asian countries, Indonesia Philippines. We theorise child's position...

Recent increases in the volume of labour migration from South-east Asia – and particular feminisation these movements suggest that millions children are growing up transnational families, separated their migrant parents. Drawing on both quantitative qualitative data collected Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand Vietnam, study seeks to elucidate care arrangements for left-behind understand ways which respond shifts intimate family relations brought about by (re)configurations care. Our findings...

The distinct feminization of labour migration in Southeast Asia - particularly the breadwinning mothers as domestic and care workers gender-segmented global markets has altered arrangements, gender roles practices, well family relationships within household significantly. Such changes were experienced by both migrating women other left-behind members family, 'substitute' carers such husbands. During women's absence from home, householding strategies have to be reformulated when migrant...

Increasing feminisation of transnational labour migration has raised concerns over potential 'care crises' at home, and consequently a deficit' for children left in origin countries. Our paper focuses on how left-behind from Indonesia the Philippines understand, engage react to changes their everyday lives parents' absence. While many had no say care arrangements, some were able assert agency influencing decisions eventually migratory behaviours. Their thoughts actions reinforce importance...

The rise of international marriage and cross-national families in Asia has resulted diversified pathways to citizenship within families. While the emerging scholarship focused on migrants' negotiations, less attention been given next generation. This paper centres 55 children from with a Singaporean non-Singaporean parent, range ethnicities socio-economic class. children, aged 10–25, may hold either single (solely or another nationality) dual status. We give how these engage ascribed status...

In the past three decades, bid to develop Singapore into a global hub for high-tech, knowledge-intensive industries has underpinned Singapore’s push augment its local talent pool by attracting highly skilled transnational migrants. The ensuing influx of “foreign talent” “nation-city-state” triggered major questions relating social integration and cohesion, raised implications demographic future “multiracial” identity. article seeks understand politics identity stemming from increased...

As one of Asia's key hubs for transient workers, Singapore's migration regime creates particularly gendered streams labour, especially among lower skilled occupations, as is apparent in two sectors – domestic work and construction work. Drawing on surveys with Bangladeshi workers Indonesian based Singapore, well in-depth interviews each group, this paper examines issues temporary labour migration, precarity risk, they occur against a backdrop migrant indebtedness. In paper, we argue that...

The prevailing labor migration regime in Asia is underpinned by rotating-door principles of enforced transience, where low-wage migrant gains admission into host nation-states based on short-term, time-limited contracts and family reunification permanent settlement at destination are explicitly prohibited. In this context, we ask how migrant-sending families Southeast Asian "source" countries—Indonesia the Philippines—sustain life long-term absence one or both parents (often mothers)....

Abstract In view of heightened food security issues in COVID‐19 times, we employ a transnational lens to give bifocal attention migrant women’s experiences during the pandemic, as they sought secure access for themselves and left‐behind children family members Indonesia Philippines. conjunction with classic idea global care chains notion foodwork, propose foodcare . This distinctly agentic, migrant, maternal labour came fore under exceptional times pandemic‐induced social distancing,...

ABSTRACT Drawing on the domains of integration, this paper illuminates integration experiences female marriage migrants from lower income cross‐national families in Singapore. Through interviews with 38 Singaporean‐husband and foreign‐wife pairing, we show how Singapore is experienced through interrelated structural, social cultural, while foregrounding family as an added domain interest. Although to citizen‐husbands create privileged pathways citizenship rights hence forms neither...

ABSTRACT An oil spill began in October 2021 off the coast of Orange County, California, releasing 24,696 gallons crude into coastal environments. Although spills, such as this one, are recurrent accidents along California coast, no prior studies have been performed to examine severity local bacterial response. A 10-year time series short-read metagenomes located within impacted area allowed us quantify magnitude and duration disturbance relative natural fluctuations. We found that largest...

Abstract: Part of the globalisation phenomenon involves an increasing number elite transmigrants traversing national boundaries in response to global demand for skilled labour while maintaining multifaceted social ties astride political, geographic and cultural borders, linking home host countries together. As ‘live’ several communities simultaneously, their identities, behaviour values are often not limited by location. Thus, notions ‘home’ ‘national identity’ also being reviewed given...

Migration is an increasingly significant driver of transformations in family configurations and caregiving practices as well living arrangements. The sustainability geographically-split formations dependent on several factors, including the presence strength care support networks among migrants their left-behind families, access to communication infrastructure stability families' financial resources. Drawing both a selective review relevant academic literature key findings from CHAMPSEA...

Doreen Massey (2005. For Space. London: Sage.) argued that space and time should not be reduced to a bounded locality of the 'here now' instead proposed re-imagining 'space as simultaneity stories-so-far'. We build on her argument suggest an appreciation migrant aspirations future trajectories require us go beyond simultaneous 'stories-so-far' but also consider 'stories-to-come' which may upon, divert from, or even unmake 'stories-so-far'. apply these ideas our study (based questionnaire...

This article considers the ways in which information communication technologies (ICTs) are embedded foreign domestic workers’ migration experiences Singapore. Due to Singapore’s stringent regime, whereby workers required live-in with their employers, often find access and use of ICTs subject a high degree surveillance regulation by employers. Using Massey’s notion power geometry, we consider how increasing reliance upon communications technology both employers necessitates renegotiation...

Children-whether left behind or as migrants-have remained largely invisible in Southeast Asian migration scholarship. Their experiences and perspectives on migration, well how they demonstrate agency within the limits of culturally/socially constructed childhoods influenced by a "hybridisation" global local conditions, are often overlooked favour adults'. This article addresses this research lacuna focusing attention left-behind Indonesian Filipino children between 9 11 years age engage...

In contrast to existing literature on transnational elites which has stereotypically identified the migrant as an individual careerist, usually white, middle-aged and male, this paper gives attention aspects of skilled transmigration beyond productive sphere by bringing into play questions concerning “family” “family relations.” We suggest that even in situations where different family members do not move a unit, relations” continue be constructed, sustained reshaped grounded ways, signalled...

While mixed marriage can act as a 'facilitator of integration' for migrants, feminist scholars have argued that in Asia, pathways to citizenship migrants are precariously ridden with negotiations around gender, ethnicity, nationality and class. In this context, the family sphere lies between individual migrant state, features strategic site where categories take effect on lives one hand, claims mediated, negotiated contested other. Drawing two ethnographic studies Southeast Asian women...