Migrant Workers in Singapore: Lives and Labour in a Transient Migration Regime
Initially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the first few months of 2020, Singapore found itself home to the highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia by the middle of the same year. Over 90 per cent of its cases occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction workers …
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American Behavioral Scientist – Special Issue: (Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond (Vol. 66, Issue 14)
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 …
Chinese Religion in Contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan: The Cult of the Two Grand Elders
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye …
Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants
Nearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic …
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Journal of Gender, Work Organization – Special Issue: Close Encounters: Migrant Bodies, Workplace and Intimate Labour in Asia (Vol 29, Issue 3)
Intimate labor, “the work of tending to the sexual, bodily, health, hygiene and care needs of individuals” (Parreñas et al., 2016, p. 2), is an emergent concept in social research. Differentiated from impersonal service delivery and other forms of social relations of the workplace, intimate labor involves the provision of individualized attention, the sharing of …
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies – Special Issue: Gender, Migration and Digital Communication in Asia (Volume 20, Issue 2)
In recent decades, the role of digital communication in the lives of migrants in Asia has greatly expanded, becoming integral to the decision to migrate, earning a living, and the practice of keeping in touch with left-behind families and friends. The papers in this Special Issue foreground how gender structures and practices within migrant households …
Religion – Special Issue: Religion and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Presence and Distance (Vol. 52, Issue 2)
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, various wide-reaching regulations were implemented to mitigate the virality of disaster throughout the world. The articles in this collection examine how COVID era regulations, and anxieties of infection, have intervened in religious lives and practices. For those who hold religious or spiritual commitments, a fulfilling experience requires, at …
Tween Girls’ Dressing and Young Femininity in Singapore: Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast?
This book provides an insight into girls’ cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls’ dressing in Singapore. The book adopts a girl-centred approach to shed light on the narratives and experiences of young Singaporean girls that have often been overlooked. It draws on the conversations with young Singaporean girls aged 8 …
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