Wen-Ching Ting
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wen-Ching Ting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wen-Ching |
| FAMILY NAME | Ting |
| SIGNATURE | TING W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chang Jung Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0820-2884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dyadic transnational social protection
This paper challenges the usual individual-focused view of social protection by introducing a care dyad framework that treats migrant domestic workers (MDWs) and their elderly employers as one analytical unit. Using Singapore as a case study, it shows that the welfare of both groups is intertwined and shaped by transnational resource environments, even though the older adults themselves are not migrants. The study argues that support for care dya…
Geographies of Transnational Domesticity
Low-paid domestic work abroad is particularly devalued in Myanmar’s traditional culture but an increasing number of women from Myanmar are taking up such work. Negative perceptions of domestic worker migration in Myanmar—rationalizing as well as reinforced by a government ban on women’s migration as domestic labor (from 2014–2019)—entrenches gender inequalities in the country and individualizes the risks that women encounter during migration. The…
Care circulations between Singapore and Myanmar
While considerable attention has been given to the impact of migration on left-behind families, such research focuses on the children of migrants, rather than older members of the family who play crucial roles in maintaining familyhood in place and across borders. Through a multi-sited study of foreign domestic migration between Singapore and Myanmar for eldercare work, we draw attention to the care circulations connecting elderly employers in Si…
Informality during migration, “conversion” within and across national spaces
Conditions of precarity, irregularity, and illegality are often associated with informality. Yet the functional and analytical value of informality as a condition and process underpinning the migration industry and infrastructure has yet to be fully investigated. This paper considers first, how is informality constructed within national space and across national spaces (i.e., transnationally) during migration? Second, in the context of migration,…
Charting Interfaces of Power
Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork with displaced Shan living along the Thai–Burma border, this study focuses on the translocal lived spaces that the Shan people have created in accounting for the multiplicity of voluntary or forced migration experiences and uncovering a very different picture of ‘home’ during displacement. It argues that ‘homes’ on the move function as nodes in wider networks of convergence and mobilization, which link internally …
Informality during migration, “conversion” within and across national spaces
Conditions of precarity, irregularity, and illegality are often associated with informality. Yet the functional and analytical value of informality as a condition and process underpinning the migration industry and infrastructure has yet to be fully investigated. This paper considers first, how is informality constructed within national space and across national spaces (i.e., transnationally) during migration? Second, in the context of migration,…
Care circulations between Singapore and Myanmar
While considerable attention has been given to the impact of migration on left-behind families, such research focuses on the children of migrants, rather than older members of the family who play crucial roles in maintaining familyhood in place and across borders. Through a multi-sited study of foreign domestic migration between Singapore and Myanmar for eldercare work, we draw attention to the care circulations connecting elderly employers in Si…
Charting Interfaces of Power
Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork with displaced Shan living along the Thai–Burma border, this study focuses on the translocal lived spaces that the Shan people have created in accounting for the multiplicity of voluntary or forced migration experiences and uncovering a very different picture of ‘home’ during displacement. It argues that ‘homes’ on the move function as nodes in wider networks of convergence and mobilization, which link internally …
Charting Interfaces of Power
Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork with displaced Shan living along the Thai–Burma border, this study focuses on the translocal lived spaces that the Shan people have created in accounting for the multiplicity of voluntary or forced migration experiences and uncovering a very different picture of ‘home’ during displacement. It argues that ‘homes’ on the move function as nodes in wider networks of convergence and mobilization, which link internally …
Informality during migration, “conversion” within and across national spaces
Conditions of precarity, irregularity, and illegality are often associated with informality. Yet the functional and analytical value of informality as a condition and process underpinning the migration industry and infrastructure has yet to be fully investigated. This paper considers first, how is informality constructed within national space and across national spaces (i.e., transnationally) during migration? Second, in the context of migration,…
Care circulations between Singapore and Myanmar
While considerable attention has been given to the impact of migration on left-behind families, such research focuses on the children of migrants, rather than older members of the family who play crucial roles in maintaining familyhood in place and across borders. Through a multi-sited study of foreign domestic migration between Singapore and Myanmar for eldercare work, we draw attention to the care circulations connecting elderly employers in Si…
Geographies of Transnational Domesticity
Low-paid domestic work abroad is particularly devalued in Myanmar’s traditional culture but an increasing number of women from Myanmar are taking up such work. Negative perceptions of domestic worker migration in Myanmar—rationalizing as well as reinforced by a government ban on women’s migration as domestic labor (from 2014–2019)—entrenches gender inequalities in the country and individualizes the risks that women encounter during migration. The…
Dyadic transnational social protection
This paper challenges the usual individual-focused view of social protection by introducing a care dyad framework that treats migrant domestic workers (MDWs) and their elderly employers as one analytical unit. Using Singapore as a case study, it shows that the welfare of both groups is intertwined and shaped by transnational resource environments, even though the older adults themselves are not migrants. The study argues that support for care dya…
Geography (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (2 works)