Symbolic boundaries and power relations between Indian migrant workers and Singaporean Indians.

• Main Author: Maheswari Krishnan Murthy.
• Other Authors: Lim Khek Gee, Francis
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/34309
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this research I shall explore the social practices of two groups of Indians; the Indian migrant workers and the Singaporean Indians in Little India. I will link these findings to Michele Lamont and Virag Molnar (2002)’s symbolic boundaries and Foucauldian Power. This work seeks to highlight symbolic boundaries and spatial boundaries that exist between the two groups of Indians in Little India when they engaged in social practices. Through this process the power relations were displayed. The data result illustrates that power relations vary under different contexts and that Foucault’s notion of resistance is not prevalent as it is not the intentionality of the marginal group to challenge the dominant group.