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Dr Theodora Lam is a Senior Research Fellow with the Asian Migration Cluster.

She obtained her PhD in Geography from NUS and her dissertation focused on understanding changing gender subjectivities, web of care and relationships within the family in the wake of transnational labour migration. Her research highlights the voices of return migrants as well as carers and children who have remained in the home countries. Dr Lam is currently involved in several research projects including the longitudinal multi-country study, Child Health and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA): Waves 1 and 2, Healthcare and Foodwork among Foreign Domestic Workers and their Children, Cross-Cultural Families in Singapore, and Transnationalism and Diaspora. Her research interests cover transnational migration of both skilled and low-waged migrants, transnational family dynamics, children and youths’ geographies, and gender subjectivities. She is the co-editor of several special journal issues and has published on themes relating to migration, global households, citizenship and education in various journals and edited books.