Seeking respect, fairness, and community : low-wage migrants, authoritarian regimes, and the everyday urban
Singapore is a city-state with high dependencies on Asian low-wage migrants to work in dirty, dangerous, and undesirable jobs in domestic work, shipyards, construction sites, and factories. These are forms of labour shunned by citizens and the middle class in the city, and engender a highly stratifi...
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Main Author: | Kathiravelu, Laavanya |
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Other Authors: | Brunnegger, Sandra |
Format: | Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146554 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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