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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1757172024-05-12T15:32:47Z Safe transport for low-wage migrant workers in Singapore: discourses and political justifications Idnani, Sonya Fairoze Laavanya Kathiravelu School of Social Sciences LaavanyaK@ntu.edu.sg Social Sciences Low-wage Migrant Workers Safe Transportation Workplace Safety Lorries 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. Bachelor's degree 2024-05-05T23:58:58Z 2024-05-05T23:58:58Z 2024 Final Year Project (FYP) Idnani, S. F. (2024). Safe transport for low-wage migrant workers in Singapore: discourses and political justifications. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175717 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175717 en SSS/SOC/2023/S1/019 application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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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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