Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 24960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huang |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8932-6362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 965 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
The affective dimensions of child-raising in cross-national families in Singapore
Doing more among institutional boundaries: Platform-enabled government in China
The concept of Government as a Platform (GaaP) has recently encountered setbacks in practice worldwide. While existing literature on inter-governmental collaboration has emphasized organizational restructuring and data sharing, this study argues that a pragmatic way to improve administrative efficiency in the absence of formal institutional change is to adopt an alternative model to GaaP: platform-enabled government. Enabled by innovations of the…
Structural vulnerability and neoliberal subjectivities of low-income binational families in Singapore
Dyadic pairs as interview method: Older Singaporeans and their live‐in migrant carers
Dyadic interviewing is a research method that focuses on the interdependent relationship between two people (known as a dyad). Alongside the rise of relational approaches in geography, researchers have taken greater interest in understanding the shared lives of specifically paired individuals. Although paired interviewing presents a way to elicit the constitutive aspects of shared lives, it remains under‐discussed. Based on research methods devel…
(Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond
This special issue examines how older adults anticipate and manage their futures through migration. Although ageing is often associated with decline towards the end-of-life, it is still a life stage where (the lack of) planning for the future can profoundly impact the life outcomes of older adults and their caregivers. This collection illustrates different ways migration can impact ageing. For some, perceptions and depictions of the future lead o…
Who Cares? Older Singaporeans Negotiating Care Expectations and Aging Futures
International migration has meant that many transnational families develop transnational circuits of care to maintain collective family welfare. Although the emotional toll of geographical separation on the family has been recognized, the perspectives of elderly family members have remained relatively under-explored. Our paper seeks to plug this gap by first studying how emotions mediate the impact of geographical distance on caregiving and conve…
Migrant domestic workers and the household division of intimate labour: Reconfiguring eldercare relations in Singapore
As Singapore confronts escalating demands for eldercare labour in the face of rapid ageing, families are increasingly resorting to market-based, gender-normative options predicated on the care-chain migration of women to resolve familial care deficits. At the same time, given the prevalence of discourses of Asian familialism, the abdication of eldercare responsibilities to non-familial caregivers whose labour is purchased through market transacti…
Shared spaces and “throwntogetherness” in later life: A qualitative GIS study of non-migrant and migrant older adults in Singapore
Webs of Care: Qualitative GIS Research on Aging, Mobility, and Care Relations in Singapore
The connections between time and space have been studied considerably in quantitative and qualitative research on the geographies of care; however, researchers tend to prioritize one approach over the other. Our article integrates analyses of activity spaces and space-time paths with conceptualizations of care developed in qualitative studies to deepen understanding of the spatiotemporal care routines of older adults in Singapore. Using qualitati…
Tuning care relations between migrant caregivers and the elderly in Singapore
The literature on care relations and eldercare has directed attention towards recognising the interdependence between ‘carer’ (familial caregiver or home support worker) and the ‘cared for’ (the older person). Such an approach gives attention to the contingencies and entanglements that shape the relationships among differently positioned members of care dyads. Drawing on in‐depth and ‘go‐along’ interviews, we examine how relations between migrant…
Multicultural encounters in Singapore's nursing homes: A Care Ethics Approach
This paper adopts a care ethics lens to examine multicultural encounters in the institutional care space of nursing homes in Singapore. We focus on the interactions between foreign and local care workers of different nationalities and ethnicities in their interactions as they work alongside one another to take care of elderly residents, as well as in the time they spend together after working hours. Drawing upon qualitative data, we seek to under…
Generative spaces of gender and feminist geography in Singapore: Entanglements of the personal and political
While geographers’ work in Southeast Asia has yet to engage substantively with theoretical developments in gender/feminist studies generated by Anglo-American academic centers, we argue that Singapore has proven to be somewhat of an exception. Focusing on the National University of Singapore, this article discusses how the development of gender and feminist geography in Singapore has benefitted from being able to engage with international debates…
Forum on Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations
In this forum, Marilyn Strathern and Jade S. Sasser review Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway's edited volume Making Kin, Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018). Responses from multiple authors featured in the book follow
A continuing agenda for gender: The role of the IGU Commission on gender and geography
In examining the development of the International Geographical Union’s (IGU) Commission on Gender and Geography over the last three decades, we first highlight the advances made to establish visibility for gender studies within the IGU and create structures for more inclusive feminist geographies across national, disciplinary and other borders. Given that many of the early and most widely-known advances were largely within Anglophone contexts, we…
Care Work
Care work refers to any face‐to‐face service that contributes to the affective and physical maintenance and development of those receiving the care. Because care is socially constructed as a “natural” attribute of women, care work when paid is seen as a feminized occupation. Feminists have contributed significantly to research on the geographies of care and care work, challenging its naturalization as women's work and its associations with domest…
Commentary on Johanna Waters' paper ‘Educational imperatives and the compulsion for credentials: Family migration and children's education in East Asia
Commentary on Johanna Waters' paper ‘Educational imperatives and the compulsion for credentials: family migration and children's education in East Asia'." Children's Geographies, 13(3), pp. 294–295
Cosmopolitan beginnings? Transnational healthcare workers and the politics of carework in Singapore
In recent times, the increasing scholarly interest in the contested place of the migrant in the cities of the North and South has drawn mainly on frameworks of integration, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. Much of the literature pays little heed to gender dynamics and accords little value in particular to the roles that female migrants play in actively shaping the urban contexts in which they live. We contend that by shifting attention to th…
Singapore's Changing Demography, the Eldercare Predicament and Transnational ‘Care’ Migration
Scholars have recently argued that globalisation processes have significantly altered not just the productive but reproductive sphere. ‘Reproduction’ is formulated to include both biological and social reproduction, and which at the individual level requires ‘care’ throughout the life-cycle – that is, from cradle to grave – in sustaining the body in its corporeal and affective aspects. Concepts that have emerged in the literature in recent decade…
Developing a View from Within: Researching Women's Mobilities in/out of Asia
There is dominance of Anglo-American knowledge production in women's/gender/feminist studies in setting research agendas for theoretical approaches, epistemology, methodologies, and even topics investigated. In this paper, I argue that scholars in non-Anglo-American contexts, such as Asia, need to engage more in international academic debates, so as to provide an Asian perspective in feminist studies in a significant and visible way. The paper ac…
The Politics, Subjectivities and Connectivities of Transnational Migration in East Asia
Migration into, out of, and within East Asia (comprising Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia) will undoubtedly increase as we continue into the twenty-first century. We need sustained research to provide fresh insights into transnational migrants' changing subjective positions and power as they move in/out of East Asia, constructing complex social locations as they live their lives transnationally. The papers in this special issue focus on three is…
Introduction to special section on migration methodologies: Emerging subjects, registers and spatialities of migration in Asia
Contemporary scholarship on the processes, institutions, practices and experiences of international migration draws on a wide range of research methodologies, reflecting the multi-disciplinary character of the field, the diverse sites and subjects of migration, and the varied concepts and theories that underpin this area of study (King 2012). Indeed, while the core of a more traditional study of migration may be centred on policy-relevant quantit…
Caring for the elderly: The embodied labour of migrant care workers in Singapore
Research on transnational care work has tended to focus on the migration of women for either domestic work or nursing, and the two bodies of work have remained largely separate. In developed countries such as Singapore, however, the high level of female labour force participation alongside a rapidly ageing population has led to the deployment of both groups of migrant care workers to alleviate the impending eldercare crisis. Migrant domestic work…
Transnational mobilities for care: Rethinking the dynamics of care in Asia
This special issue on 'Transnational mobilities for care: rethinking the dynamics of care in Asia' examines the intersections between transnational mobilities for care and the practices of care through the lens of transnational migration for work and marriage. In this editorial introduction, we highlight three key themes explored by the articles that make up the collection - the transposability of care; the reciprocity of care; and the continued …
Media, Religion and the Marketplace in the Information Economy: Evidence from Singapore
In this paper we suggest that the exchange of communication in a mediatized environment is transforming the nature of transactions in the religious marketplace. In this economy of religious informational exchanges, digitalization facilitates a process of mediatization that converts religious performance into forms suitable for commodification and commoditization. The intersection of digital media, religion, and the marketplace is demonstrated in …
Cultivating Online and Offline Pathways to Enlightenment: Religious authority and strategic arbitration in wired Buddhist organization
In light of expanding epistemic resources online, the mediatization of religion poses questions about the possible changes, decline and reconstruction of clergy authority. Distinct from virtual Buddhism or cybersangha research which relies primarily on online observational data, this paper examines Buddhist clergy communication within the context of established religious organizations with an integrationist perspective on interpersonal communicat…
Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore
This paper investigates migrant domestic workers as a marginalised group in Singapore's urban landscape by examining the ways in which their social maps are structured and negotiated in relation to public space. It 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 wh…
Home” and “away”
Ties that bind: State policy and migrant female domestic helpers in Singapore
Transnationalizing the 'Asian' family: Imaginaries, Intimacies and Strategic Intents
In this introductory article, we emphasize the significance of considering the politics and practices of transnationalism as they impinge on the social morphology of transnational ‘Asian’ families. Three strands of work in this arena are discussed. First, transnational families draw on ideologically laden imaginaries to give coherence to notions of belonging despite the physical dispersal of their members; these imaginaries may in turn act as a c…
Transnational families and their children's education: China's 'study mothers' in Singapore
For many middle-income Asian families from the region's less developed countries, the education of children in a more developed country has become a major ‘project’ requiring the transnational relocation of one or more members of the family. As an aspiring global education hub, Singapore has been a recipient of many international students. In our article we examine the case of ‘study mothers’ from the People's Republic of China who accompany thei…
Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration
In this introduction to the special issue of JEMS on The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in Asia, we note the movement in the academic literature from a narrow focus on the economic rationalities and corporate logics of transnational mobility among professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites, to a greater interest in these elite transnational subjects as embodied bearers of culture, ethnicity, class and gender. We draw out two key t…
Navigating the terrains of transnational education: Children of Chinese ‘study mothers’ in Singapore
Transnational Domestic Workers and the Negotiation of Mobility and Work Practices in Singapore's Home-Spaces
10.1080/17450101003665036
Spaces at the Margins: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Development of Civil Society in Singapore
It has been argued in the feminist literature that the state often contributes to patriarchal constructions of women's subordinate positions by providing political space for women's incorporation into civil society not as individuals and citizens but as members of a family belonging to the private sphere. In this paper the authors explore this question in the broad context of international labour migration in the Asia Pacific region, where migran…
Emotional Labour and Transnational Domestic Work: The Moving Geographies of 'Maid Abuse' in Singapore
10.1080/17450100701381557
Diasporic subjects and identity negotiations
Diasporic subjects in the nation: Foreign domestic workers, the reach of law and civil society in Singapore
10.1080/1035782042000194491
The Difference Gender Makes: State Policy and Contract Migrant Workers in Singapore
The increasing numbers of men and women involved in international labor migration at all skill levels have raised crucial policy issues and concerns for both sending and receiving countries, not only in the area of migration and employment legislation, but also in terms of how migrant workers are positioned within the larger society. Using the case of Singapore, we adopt a gendered analysis to examine the central role of state policies and practi…
Caring for the elderly: The embodied labour of migrant care workers in Singapore
Research on transnational care work has tended to focus on the migration of women for either domestic work or nursing, and the two bodies of work have remained largely separate. In developed countries such as Singapore, however, the high level of female labour force participation alongside a rapidly ageing population has led to the deployment of both groups of migrant care workers to alleviate the impending eldercare crisis. Migrant domestic work…
Recreating place, replacing memory: Creative destruction at the Singapore River
The transformation of urban landscapes is as much a physical process as it is a symbolic one. Material changes in the form of demolition and redevelopment are often accompanied by changes in the image and identity of places, as well as the personal and collective memories associated with these places. Focusing on the Singapore River, we explore how waterfront redevelopment has rendered certain activities, people and place memories invisible, to b…
Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore
As a small labor-short city-state with over 100,000 migrant domestic workers mainly from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka and amounting to one foreign maid to every eight households, Singapore provides a case study of a country where foreign maids are seen as an economic necessity but not without important social consequences and political ramifications. Beginning with a brief examination of state policy on transnational labor migration …
Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang, Joaquin Gonzalez III, Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 114-136
The conservation-redevelopment dilemma in Singapore
Asian Transnational Families in Transition: The Liminality of Simultaneity
10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00469.x
On The Waterfront: Globalization and Urbanization in Singapore
Although many cities aspire to "global-city status," few have been as explicit as Singapore in its quest to create urban landscapes to project its global aspirations. This paper presents the case of the Singapore River development zone as a "hyper-symbol" of Singapore's global urbanism. By creating a world-class riverfront not unlike the acclaimed waterfronts of London, Sydney, or San Francisco, Singapore's urban planners hope to project the city…
Tourism and heritage conservation in Singapore
Sexualised politics of proximities among female transnational migrants in Singapore
In going beyond the general observation in the geographical literature that migrant women are often rendered ‘out of place’ in both globalisation discourses and the material spaces of the global city, we draw on a comparative frame in order to tease out more specific insights. The paper compares the sexualised moral discourses generated by the presence of two different groups of transnational migrant women in the city – foreign domestic workers p…
Webs of Care: Qualitative GIS Research on Aging, Mobility, and Care Relations in Singapore
The connections between time and space have been studied considerably in quantitative and qualitative research on the geographies of care; however, researchers tend to prioritize one approach over the other. Our article integrates analyses of activity spaces and space-time paths with conceptualizations of care developed in qualitative studies to deepen understanding of the spatiotemporal care routines of older adults in Singapore. Using qualitati…
Global cities, transnational flows and gender dimensions: The view from Singapore
This paper challenges the systematic, though often unacknowledged, gendered nature of much of current globalisation discourse and argues for the need to give attention to the gendered dimensions of the transnational flows of people into global cities and, relatedly, the gendering of metropolitan space in the process. The paper focuses on Singapore, an aspiring global city, to investigate how global city spaces are transgressed by transnational mi…
Transnational mobilities for care: Rethinking the dynamics of care in Asia
This special issue on 'Transnational mobilities for care: rethinking the dynamics of care in Asia' examines the intersections between transnational mobilities for care and the practices of care through the lens of transnational migration for work and marriage. In this editorial introduction, we highlight three key themes explored by the articles that make up the collection - the transposability of care; the reciprocity of care; and the continued …
Childcare Centres in Singapore: Choices Under Constraints
Forty Years of Human Geography in the Journal
This paper reviews the articles published on human geography in the Journal since its inception, and focuses on the contributions made in the major fields of research. In the earlier years of the Journal , the themes of tropical agriculture, population and settlement geography, and historical geography were particularly strong, as was a concern with human‐environment relationships. Over the years, articles on urban and regional planning, transpor…
Women, childcare and the state in Singapore
Childcare in Singapore
Tourism and heritage conservation in Singapore
Gender and Urban Space in the Tropical World
The conservation-redevelopment dilemma in Singapore
A sense of place in public housing
Ties that bind: State policy and migrant female domestic helpers in Singapore
Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore
This paper investigates migrant domestic workers as a marginalised group in Singapore's urban landscape by examining the ways in which their social maps are structured and negotiated in relation to public space. It 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 wh…
Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore
As a small labor-short city-state with over 100,000 migrant domestic workers mainly from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka and amounting to one foreign maid to every eight households, Singapore provides a case study of a country where foreign maids are seen as an economic necessity but not without important social consequences and political ramifications. Beginning with a brief examination of state policy on transnational labor migration …
Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang, Joaquin Gonzalez III, Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore, The International Migration Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 114-136
Spaces at the Margins: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Development of Civil Society in Singapore
It has been argued in the feminist literature that the state often contributes to patriarchal constructions of women's subordinate positions by providing political space for women's incorporation into civil society not as individuals and citizens but as members of a family belonging to the private sphere. In this paper the authors explore this question in the broad context of international labour migration in the Asia Pacific region, where migran…
Les migrations internationales des domestiques philippines. Contextes et expériences aux Philippines et à Singapour
Les migrations internationales des domestiques philippines Contextes et expériences aux Philippines et à Singapour. Richard T. Jackson, Shirlena Huang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh. Bien qu'il ait souvent été avancé que les conditions ayant généré les migrations de travailleuses philippines sous contrat sont ancrées dans des rapports politico-économiques inégaux entre les Philippines et les pays importateurs de main d'œuvre, nous affirmons que les inégalité…
Home” and “away”
Global cities, transnational flows and gender dimensions: The view from Singapore
This paper challenges the systematic, though often unacknowledged, gendered nature of much of current globalisation discourse and argues for the need to give attention to the gendered dimensions of the transnational flows of people into global cities and, relatedly, the gendering of metropolitan space in the process. The paper focuses on Singapore, an aspiring global city, to investigate how global city spaces are transgressed by transnational mi…
Diasporic subjects and identity negotiations
Tropical Geography: Research and Reflections
The Difference Gender Makes: State Policy and Contract Migrant Workers in Singapore
The increasing numbers of men and women involved in international labor migration at all skill levels have raised crucial policy issues and concerns for both sending and receiving countries, not only in the area of migration and employment legislation, but also in terms of how migrant workers are positioned within the larger society. Using the case of Singapore, we adopt a gendered analysis to examine the central role of state policies and practi…
Southeast Asian Migrant Women: Navigating Borders, Negotiating Scales
10.1111/j.0129-7619.2004.00178.x
When the Light of the Home is Abroad: Unskilled Female Migration and the Filipino Family
The migration of women engaged in transnational domestic work reveals how the uneven impacts of globalisation have intruded into the micro‐world of families and households. In this age of globalisation and migration, family membership has become multisited or transnational, with members dispersed in space. The migration of workers and the separation this entails has raised challenges to notions and ideals of “being family”. Unlike other workers o…
Diasporic subjects in the nation: Foreign domestic workers, the reach of law and civil society in Singapore
10.1080/1035782042000194491
Gender representation in geography: Singapore
In Singapore, geography emerged as a strongly masculinist university discipline during the interwar years under colonial rule. Localizing staff hires in the postcolonial era did not immediately produce gender‐balanced staff profiles. Instead, a more equitable gender representation was achieved only in the last decade, following the increasing ‘feminization’ of the student population in the discipline resulting from compulsory National Service for…
On The Waterfront: Globalization and Urbanization in Singapore
Although many cities aspire to "global-city status," few have been as explicit as Singapore in its quest to create urban landscapes to project its global aspirations. This paper presents the case of the Singapore River development zone as a "hyper-symbol" of Singapore's global urbanism. By creating a world-class riverfront not unlike the acclaimed waterfronts of London, Sydney, or San Francisco, Singapore's urban planners hope to project the city…
The Singapore River thematic zone: Sustainable Tourism in an Urban Context
This paper explores the concept of sustainable tourism and how it applies to urban destinations such as Singapore. As tourism is an important industry in Singapore, in terms of employment, business activity and an income generator, the Singapore Tourism Board is continuously looking at potential avenues to make Singapore a competitive destination. We examine the use of thematic zones in Singapore as a strategy to achieve its ambition of becoming …
Sociology (58 works) · Political science (53 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (37 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (37 works) · Gender Studies (31 works) · Law (30 works) · Social science (26 works) · Law (22 works) · Politics (22 works) · Geography (21 works)