Bodies that don’t matter, but labor that does : the low-wage male migrant in Singapore and Dubai
Singapore and Dubai are hypermodern city-states that host large temporary migrant populations. The majority of this group is composed of low-wage workers, migrant men from India who labor under conditions of structural inequality and extreme precarity. While there is a growing literature that discus...
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Main Author: | Kathiravelu, Laavanya |
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Other Authors: | Boero, Natalie |
Format: | Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Online Access: | https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842475.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190842475-e-26 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146546 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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