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 stigma attached to paid domestic work is extended to a transnational context during migration to Singapore. This article contributes geographical perspectives to the literature on migration risk by highlighting the scalar and transnational dimensions of risk, as well as the entanglement of the public and private spheres. The article also proposes the concept of “multiple intersectional domains” to capture how intersectional identities crosscut with particular social locations to produce cumulative disadvantage during migration. The Myanmar government’s lack of recognition and protection for migrant domestic workers, alongside the “hidden” geographies of domestic work in Singapore, result in structural conditions that entrench risks across multiple intersectional domains thereby enacting slow violence on such migrants. The article draws on qualitative multisited field work conducted in Myanmar and Singapore between 2018 and 2019.

在缅甸的传统文化中，国外的低薪家政工作尤其受到贬值，但越来越多的缅甸妇女正在从事此类工作。缅甸对家政工人移民的负面看法——政府禁止女性移民作为家政劳动（2014-2019 年）合理化并强化了这种看法——加剧了该国的性别不平等，并使女性在移民过程中遇到的风险因人而异。在移民到新加坡期间，有偿家政工作的耻辱感延伸到跨国背景。本文通过强调风险的标量和跨国维度，以及公共和私人领域的纠缠，为移民风险文献贡献地理视角。文章还提出了“多个交叉域”的概念，以捕捉交叉身份如何与特定社会位置交叉，从而在迁移过程中产生累积劣势。缅甸政府缺乏对移民家政工人的认可和保护，加上新加坡家政工作的“隐藏”地域，导致结构性条件加剧了跨多个交叉领域的风险，从而对这些移民实施缓慢的暴力。本文借鉴了 2018 年至 2019 年间在缅甸和新加坡进行的定性多地点实地调查。与新加坡家政工作的“隐蔽”地理位置一起，导致结构性条件加剧了跨多个交叉领域的风险，从而对此类移民实施缓慢的暴力。本文借鉴了 2018 年至 2019 年间在缅甸和新加坡进行的定性多地点实地调查。与新加坡家政工作的“隐蔽”地理位置一起，导致结构性条件加剧了跨多个交叉领域的风险，从而对此类移民实施缓慢的暴力。本文借鉴了 2018 年至 2019 年间在缅甸和新加坡进行的定性多地点实地调查。