Laura Antona
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Antona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Antona |
| SIGNATURE | ANTONA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1283-2838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Geographies of Bodily (Dis)Possession: Domestic Work, Unfreedom, and Spirit Possessions in Singapore
Singapore's labor-migration regime has come under much scrutiny for the ways in which it unequally positions employers vis-à-vis their migrant "workers." One domestic worker, Rosamie, described the work permit she was issued as a "curse," as it bound her to her employers as property, leaving her vulnerable to exploitation and violence. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article argues that multiscalar geographies of bodily (dis)possession are…
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore's labour-migration regime
It is widely acknowledged that Singapore's labour-migration regime is unequal and bifurcated, with migrants that are categorised as foreign professionals afforded many more rights than those categorised as migrant workers. While migrant construction, process, and shipyard workers are expected to reside in dormitories or other shared accommodation, migrant domestic workers are mandated to live in their employers' homes, where their gendered bodies…
Carceral domesticities: An introduction
Shelters and clinics: Sites where care and violence are mutually constitutive for migrant workers in Singapore
This paper critically interrogates care and violence, demonstrating how they are both spatialised and mutually constitutive within the shelters and clinics of Singapore for migrant workers. While there are seemingly disconnected sites, both clinics and shelters are utilized to provide different forms of care, discursively represented as spaces of protection and healing. Drawing on ethnographic research with migrant domestic workers at these sites…
‘Cute face and quiet … but her look don't match her personality’: Commodifying flesh, shaping labour expectations and domestic workers' treatment in Singapore
While it is well established that domestic work has long been commodified, this paper builds on existing literature to show how employment agencies use the production of biodata to simultaneously, and strategically, homogenise and differentiate domestic workers in Singapore as racialised commodities. As such, and building on existing literatures on racialisation, bodily commodification, corporeality and domestic labour, this paper develops the co…
Making hidden spaces visible: Using drawing as a method to illuminate new geographies
In recent years there has been a growing body of scholarship on the use of alternative research methods in Geography, and the social sciences more broadly, as well as ongoing interest in the connections between Geography and art. There has been much less attention, however, given to how drawing might be used practically or productively as a method, and to how it might allow geographers to reach or see places they couldn't otherwise. Although many…
Making hidden spaces visible: Using drawing as a method to illuminate new geographies
In recent years there has been a growing body of scholarship on the use of alternative research methods in Geography, and the social sciences more broadly, as well as ongoing interest in the connections between Geography and art. There has been much less attention, however, given to how drawing might be used practically or productively as a method, and to how it might allow geographers to reach or see places they couldn't otherwise. Although many…
Carceral domesticities: An introduction
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore's labour-migration regime
It is widely acknowledged that Singapore's labour-migration regime is unequal and bifurcated, with migrants that are categorised as foreign professionals afforded many more rights than those categorised as migrant workers. While migrant construction, process, and shipyard workers are expected to reside in dormitories or other shared accommodation, migrant domestic workers are mandated to live in their employers' homes, where their gendered bodies…
Shelters and clinics: Sites where care and violence are mutually constitutive for migrant workers in Singapore
This paper critically interrogates care and violence, demonstrating how they are both spatialised and mutually constitutive within the shelters and clinics of Singapore for migrant workers. While there are seemingly disconnected sites, both clinics and shelters are utilized to provide different forms of care, discursively represented as spaces of protection and healing. Drawing on ethnographic research with migrant domestic workers at these sites…
Making hidden spaces visible: Using drawing as a method to illuminate new geographies
In recent years there has been a growing body of scholarship on the use of alternative research methods in Geography, and the social sciences more broadly, as well as ongoing interest in the connections between Geography and art. There has been much less attention, however, given to how drawing might be used practically or productively as a method, and to how it might allow geographers to reach or see places they couldn't otherwise. Although many…
‘Cute face and quiet … but her look don't match her personality’: Commodifying flesh, shaping labour expectations and domestic workers' treatment in Singapore
While it is well established that domestic work has long been commodified, this paper builds on existing literature to show how employment agencies use the production of biodata to simultaneously, and strategically, homogenise and differentiate domestic workers in Singapore as racialised commodities. As such, and building on existing literatures on racialisation, bodily commodification, corporeality and domestic labour, this paper develops the co…
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore's labour-migration regime
It is widely acknowledged that Singapore's labour-migration regime is unequal and bifurcated, with migrants that are categorised as foreign professionals afforded many more rights than those categorised as migrant workers. While migrant construction, process, and shipyard workers are expected to reside in dormitories or other shared accommodation, migrant domestic workers are mandated to live in their employers' homes, where their gendered bodies…
Carceral domesticities: An introduction
Shelters and clinics: Sites where care and violence are mutually constitutive for migrant workers in Singapore
This paper critically interrogates care and violence, demonstrating how they are both spatialised and mutually constitutive within the shelters and clinics of Singapore for migrant workers. While there are seemingly disconnected sites, both clinics and shelters are utilized to provide different forms of care, discursively represented as spaces of protection and healing. Drawing on ethnographic research with migrant domestic workers at these sites…
Geographies of Bodily (Dis)Possession: Domestic Work, Unfreedom, and Spirit Possessions in Singapore
Singapore's labor-migration regime has come under much scrutiny for the ways in which it unequally positions employers vis-à-vis their migrant "workers." One domestic worker, Rosamie, described the work permit she was issued as a "curse," as it bound her to her employers as property, leaving her vulnerable to exploitation and violence. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article argues that multiscalar geographies of bodily (dis)possession are…
Sociology (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (3 works)