Returns to (non)retirement: Ageing migrant domestic workers linking pasts and futures
Migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong who have worked for decades on restrictive, temporary contracts are mandated by the states in which they work to return to their countries of origin upon retirement.
This chapter examines their plans and imaginaries of retirement, and how new kinds of work and socially reproductive labour continue even after ‘retiring’ from work abroad. It is part of a volume on the Anthropology of Retirement, which considers life beyond retirement in a wide range of contexts.
Publication details: Amrith, M. (2025) Returns to (non)retirement: Ageing migrant domestic workers linking pasts and futures. In P. Garvey and D. Miller (Eds.) The Anthropology of Retirement: Life Beyond Work (pp. 32-50). Berghahn. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/MillerAnthropology