Shirlena Huang

TL;DR: The authors investigates the ways in which domestic workers' social maps are structured and negotiated in relation to public space and argues that the phenomenon of the "divided city" evident in capitalist societies which reflects and reinforces the sexual division of labour in general is even more salient in the lived experiences of migrant female domestic workers who must contend not simply with the spatial expressions of patriarchy, but also with racialisation and other means of segregation.

TL;DR: This paper explored how migrant women and their family members define and negotiate family ideals gender identities and family relationships given the familys transnational configuration, and provided some support to the notion that individual members in transnational families resort to "relativising" in fashioning responses to their situation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors emphasize the significance of considering the politics and practices of transnationalism as they impinge on the social morphology of Transnational 'Asian' families and discuss three strands of work in this arena: transnational families draw on ideologically laden imaginaries to give coherence to notions of belonging despite the physical dispersal of their members.

TL;DR: This paper examined the case of study mothers from the People's Republic of China who accompany their children to Singapore during the course of the latter's study, while leaving their spouses at home, and demonstrated that the transnational project of education for these young Asian children hinges crucially on the notion and realization of the "sacrificial mother".

TL;DR: It is concluded that the transnational labor migration is a multifaceted phenomenon with important repercussions on all spheres of life, hence requiring dynamic policy intervention on the part of the authorities concerned.