Safe transport for low-wage migrant workers in Singapore: discourses and political justifications
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of lorry-related road accidents involving low-wage migrant worker victims in Singapore. Yet, there has been a lack of political will to institute the banning of the use of lorries as work transportation for low-wage migrant workers. Using Critical D...
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Nanyang Technological University
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175717 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In recent years, there has been a proliferation of lorry-related road accidents involving
low-wage migrant worker victims in Singapore. Yet, there has been a lack of political will to
institute the banning of the use of lorries as work transportation for low-wage migrant workers.
Using Critical Discourse Analysis to understand the perspectives and political justifications on
this issue, this paper seeks to explore how parliamentary members, industry associations and
migrant welfare groups strategically construct discourses to constitute and reconstitute the
relations of low-wage migrant workers and risk acceptability. Additionally, this paper
investigates which discourse the state co-opts and therefore legitimises in its formal exclusion of
low-wage migrant workers from safe transport. This will be scrutinised against broader
sociocultural codes of responsibility and economic peripherality to situate the discourses. The
paper provides insight on how language is used as a means to legitimise and delegitimse
legislation, seeking to demonstrate the lack of ‘neutrality’ in social policy and discourse
construction on the issue of safe transportation for low-wage migrant workers. |
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