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Dyadic pairs as interview method: Older Singaporeans and their live‐in migrant carers

Jian An Liew, Elaine Lynn‐Ee Ho, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

Area > 54 > 3 > 427 - 434

Dyadic interviewing is a research method that focuses on the interdependent relationship between two people (known as a dyad). Alongside the rise of relational approaches in geography, researchers have taken greater interest in understanding the shared lives of specifically paired individuals. Although paired interviewing presents a way to elicit the constitutive aspects of shared lives, it remains...

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Close encounters: Migrant bodies, workplace, and intimate labor in Asia

Denise L. Spitzer, Theodora Lam, Kellynn Wee, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Gender, Work & Organization > 29 > 3 > 897 - 905

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Conceptual contours of migration studies in and from Asia

Brenda S. A. Yeoh

International Migration > 59 > 6 > 225 - 233

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Connecting care chains and care diamonds: the elderly care skills regime in Singapore

YASMIN Y. ORTIGA, KELLYNN WEE, BRENDA S. A. YEOH

Global Networks > 21 > 2 > 434 - 454

Research on the globalization of care work often faces the persistent challenge of building meaningful connections between the movement of care labour at a global scale and place‐based frameworks of care access and delivery. In addressing this gap in this article, we propose to take a closer look at how the care‐migration nexus produces ‘ideal’ care workers through a skills regime. Based on the case...

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Studying multinational migrations, speaking back to migration theory

ANJU MARY PAUL, BRENDA S. A. YEOH

Global Networks > 21 > 1 > 3 - 17

A growing body of migration scholarship has highlighted the inadequacies of a single‐origin‐single‐destination model for thinking about international migration in our globalizing world. Several terms – onward, stepwise, serial, secondary, triangular, multiple, and transit migration – have been coined to describe these multiple moves within a single migratory lifetime, but the lack of consensus on...

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Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Anju Mary Paul, Brenda S A Yeoh

Geographical Research > 58 > 4 > 355 - 364

A growing body of migration scholarship has highlighted the inadequacies of a single‐origin, single‐destination model for thinking about international migration in the 21st century. Multinational migrations—involving the varied movements of international migrants across more than one overseas destination with significant time spent in each overseas country—have been observed among high‐skilled migrants,...

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‘Cukup for me to be successful in this country’: ‘staying’ among left‐behind young women in Indonesia's migrant‐sending villages

BITTIANDRA CHAND SOMAIAH, BRENDA S. A. YEOH, SILVIA MILA ARLINI

Global Networks > 20 > 2 > 237 - 255

By examining the aspirations of young, rural Indonesian women who, unlike their parents, want to stay behind rather than migrate for work, we look at how these women's experiences of feeling left‐behind affect their quests for alternative futures. Using a household relational lens, we employ the mediating concept of enough (cukup) to analyse the aspirations of young women wishing to remain at home...

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Cosmopolitan beginnings? Transnational healthcare workers and the politics of carework in Singapore

Brenda S A Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

The Geographical Journal > 181 > 3 > 249 - 258

In recent times, the increasing scholarly interest in the contested place of the migrant in the cities of the North and South has drawn mainly on frameworks of integration, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. Much of the literature pays little heed to gender dynamics and accords little value in particular to the roles that female migrants play in actively shaping the urban contexts in which they...

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Children's agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam

LAN ANH HOANG, BRENDA S. A. YEOH

Global Networks > 15 > 2 > 180 - 197

In this article, we contribute to the growing and diverse literature on the lived experiences of children and their agency in the context of migration. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with children whose migrant parents have left them behind, as well as with those who care for them in Vietnam, we demonstrate that the various ways in which they affect migration decision‐making and transnational communication...

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Migration, society and globalisation: introduction to Virtual Issue

Adrian J Bailey, Brenda S A Yeoh

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers > 39 > 3 > 470 - 475

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Between two families: the social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore

BRENDA S. A. YEOH, CHEE HENG LENG, VU THI KIEU DUNG, CHENG YI'EN

Global Networks > 13 > 4 > 441 - 458

Scholars who have applied transnational perspectives to studies of migration and remittances have called for a move beyond the developmentalist approach to accommodate an expanded understanding of the social meanings of remittances. Researchers working in Asia have begun to view the remittances of money, gifts and services that labour migrants send to their families as transnational ‘acts of recognition’,...

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Caring for the elderly: the embodied labour of migrant care workers in Singapore

SHIRLENA HUANG, BRENDA S. A. YEOH, MIKA TOYOTA

Global Networks > 12 > 2 > 195 - 215

Research on transnational care work has tended to focus on the migration of women for either domestic work or nursing, and the two bodies of work have remained largely separate. In developed countries such as Singapore, however, the high level of female labour force participation alongside a rapidly ageing population has led to the deployment of both groups of migrant care workers to alleviate the...

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Sexualised politics of proximities among female transnational migrants in Singapore

Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

Population, Space and Place > 16 > 1 > 37 - 49

In going beyond the general observation in the geographical literature that migrant women are often rendered ‘out of place’ in both globalisation discourses and the material spaces of the global city, we draw on a comparative frame in order to tease out more specific insights. The paper compares the sexualised moral discourses generated by the presence of two different groups of transnational migrant...

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The construction of national identity through the production of ritual and spectacle - An analysis of National Day parades in Singapore

Lily Kong, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Political Geography > 1997 > 16 > 3 > 213-239

In this paper, we adopt the view that nation and national identity are social constructions, created to serve ideological ends. We discuss this in the specific empirical context of Singapore's National Day parades. By drawing on officially produced souvenir programmes and magazines, newspaper reports, and interviews with participants and spectators, we analyse the parades between 1965 and...

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Remaking local heritage for tourism

Peggy Teo, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Annals of Tourism Research > 1997 > 24 > 1 > 192-213

The paper outlines the development of Haw Par Villa as a philanthropic gift for leisure among locals to its revisioning by private enterprise and by the national tourism board as a commercial venture. Against this background, a survey was conducted among the local population to ascertain their reactions to the remaking of local heritage and among tourists to determine their perceptions of the new...

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Where women fear to tread: Images of danger and the effects of fear of crime in Singapore

Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Pei Lin Yeow

GeoJournal > 1997 > 43 > 3 > 273-286

This paper examines women's perceptions of fear and their consequent impact on women's experience and use of public space in Singapore. It argues that even in a city ranked as one of the safest in the world, women experience greater levels of fear of crime and that this fear is qualitatively different from men's as it is largely centred on a fear of rape. It identifies the various sources of ‘fear’...

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The conservation-redevelopment dilemma in Singapore - The case of the Kampong Glam historic district

Brenda S A Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

Cities > 1996 > 13 > 6 > 411-422

Conservation-redevelopment conflicts are increasingly gaining prominence on the urban agendas of cities in the developing world. This paper examines the role urban conservation plays within the broader framework of national ideology and policies in Singapore, a city which faces intensive redevelopment pressures. It explains how, from the perspective of the state, redevelopment and conservation can...

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Ties That Bind: State Policy and Migrant Female Domestic Helpers in Singapore

Shirlena Huang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Geoforum > 1996 > 27 > 4 > 479-493

Global economic restructuring has not only intensified the shift in reproductive work from the household to the market, but it has been predicated on the international mobility of labour to countries where locals are no longer willing to work in low-paying menial jobs. This paper focuses on Singapore as a country which has drawn upon female migrant workers from neighbouring developing countries to...

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Childcare in Singapore - Negotiating Choices and Constraints in a Multicultural Society

Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

Women's Studies International Forum > 1995 > 18 > 4 > 445-461

Childcare issues lie at the critical nexus where questions relating to the economy, state ideology, culture, and women's roles come together. We explore the childcare strategies of Singapore women in the context of a society which is distinctively multiracial with deep cultural tap roots and which is at the same time experiencing rapid economic development. Drawing on recent conceptualisations...

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