https://www.scmp.com/rss/324901/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Domestic employment in Southeast Asia’s rich metropolitan centres is often presented as a lucrative, even strategic choice for thousands across the region pursuing better livelihoods, or an improvement in living standards. In a recent address, a Singapore minister praised his country’s foreign domestic workers (colloquially referred to as “maids”) for choosing to “support their families back home” in this way. His language echoed that of reports in Singapore’s national broadsheet, typecasting... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2105409/would-asias-army-migrant-domestic-workers-stay-home-if-they?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2105409/would-asias-army-migrant-domestic-workers-stay-home-if-they?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 06 Aug 2017 02:33:31 +0000