Constructing “Singaporeanness” in universities: how is the Singaporean identity negotiated by foreigners and first-generation Singaporeans?

• Main Author: Tee, Isaiah Yuan Cheng
• Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70003
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis aims to study how a Singaporean identity is negotiated by foreigners and first-generation Singaporeans in universities. This identity is negotiated through what this thesis dubs as Singaporeanness, a set of defining Singaporean characteristics or traits. Using Swann’s Identity Negotiatio...