Reimagining social protection: financialised futures among ageing migrant domestic workers in Asia
Based on ethnography with long-term migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong, this article examines the increasing appeal of financial education courses in the face of precarious futures, limited state-based forms of social protection and uncertainties around kinship care in later life.
These new financialised aspirations remain entangled with existing interdependencies in migrant women’s lives and sit alongside alternative imaginaries around social protection.
Publication details: Amrith, M. (2025). Reimagining social protection: financialised futures among ageing migrant domestic workers in Asia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2542769