{"id":30436,"date":"2022-10-01T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=30436"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T07:53:57","slug":"migrant-domestic-workers-and-the-household-division-of-intimate-labour-reconfiguring-eldercare-relations-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2022\/10\/01\/migrant-domestic-workers-and-the-household-division-of-intimate-labour-reconfiguring-eldercare-relations-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant domestic workers and the household division of intimate labour: reconfiguring eldercare relations in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"4k4mg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4k4mg-0-0\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_30437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30437\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30437\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/image-4-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/image-4-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/image-4-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/image-4-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/image-4-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/image-4-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u2018Wheelchairs\u2019 by Kelman Chiang from SRN\u2019s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"7617i-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7617i-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7617i-0-0\">The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. In 2018, the share of the population aged 65 years and older in Singapore matched that of those younger than 15 years, giving rise to the term \u2018Silver Tsunami\u2019, referring to the phenomenon of a rapidly ageing population. In conjunction with this, demands for eldercare labour have also escalated, with a \u2018care deficit\u2019 arising from low fertility levels, greater woman\u2019s participation in the labour force, increasing life expectancies, and an ageing population. This has led to many families turning to non-familial caregivers to fulfil the responsibilities of eldercare, raising social anxieties about the decline of filial piety. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"ero5d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ero5d-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ero5d-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"cg9mg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cg9mg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cg9mg-0-0\">In \u2018Migrant domestic workers and the household division of intimate labour: reconfiguring eldercare relations in Singapore\u2019 (<em>Gender, Place &amp; Culture<\/em>, 2021), Professor Brenda S. A. Yeoh (NUS Department of Geography &amp; Asia Research Institute), Mr Liew Jian An (Asia Research Institute), Professor Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (NUS Department of Geography), and Associate Professor Shirlena Huang (NUS Department of Geography) explain how families work through the market solutions and moral dilemmas of eldercare. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"70tus-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"70tus-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"70tus-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"a3vp1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a3vp1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a3vp1-0-0\">The term \u2018intimate labour\u2019 refers to work involving embodied interactions shaping the social reproduction of everyday life, such as shared secrets, interpersonal rituals, bodily information, awareness of personal vulnerability, and shared memory of embarrassing situations. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"6cg19-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6cg19-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6cg19-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"4gbbh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4gbbh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4gbbh-0-0\">The work of \u2018doing family\u2019 and sustaining households requires the coordination of intimate labour, both paid and unpaid, performed by different members of the household. The delegation of intimate care labour to a domestic worker hence raises questions not only of a practical nature, but also emotionally laden concerns about who should care, and how care should be enacted. The significance of purchasing intimate labour to fill eldercare deficits thus goes beyond economic exchange, with it oftentimes introducing feelings of abandonment on the part of the elderly, fears of being supplanted on the part of familial caregivers, and frustrations with repetitive work on the part of paid intimate labourers. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"f4gj7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f4gj7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f4gj7-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"90fnq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"90fnq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"90fnq-0-0\">The team derived their findings from in-depth interviews with 34 elderly persons \u2018cared for\u2019 by foreign domestic workers and 35 foreign domestic workers employed to \u2018care for\u2019 the elderly. Most households which employ foreign domestic workers for eldercare work assume a division of labour where every day repetitive intimate work tends to be shouldered by the foreign domestic worker, while sporadic or special acts of care likely to hold visible value in signifying family ties are retained in the performance of \u2018family\u2019. This underscores the fundamentally unequal relations between the employer (usually the son or daughter of the elderly charge) who is \u2018family\u2019 and the worker, a foreigner and cultural outsider, who is not. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"c70h1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c70h1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c70h1-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"ek1r3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ek1r3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ek1r3-0-0\">Despite playing an enlarged role in sustaining social life in cities and regions with substantial care deficits, home-based eldercare performed by marginalised migrant others serves to rigidify the gendered contours of the \u2018woman-carer model\u2019 of care, facilitating the reproduction of the hegemonic family formation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"52ouf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"52ouf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"52ouf-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dc1to\" data-offset-key=\"79bcg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"79bcg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"79bcg-0-0\">Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0966369X.2021.1956435\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. In 2018, the share of the population aged 65 years and older in Singapore matched that of those younger than 15 years, giving rise to the term \u2018Silver Tsunami\u2019, referring to the phenomenon of a rapidly ageing population. 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