Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore

This paper seeks to understand the forms everyday negotiations of diversity take in the ‘heartland’neighbourhood in Singapore, and through the interactions between Singaporean residents and transient male migrant workers, how migrant workers are perceived and their treatment by locals in the neighbo...

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Main Author: Loke, Zhen Yi
Other Authors: Teo You Yenn
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-700222019-12-10T11:43:30Z Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore Loke, Zhen Yi Teo You Yenn School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences This paper seeks to understand the forms everyday negotiations of diversity take in the ‘heartland’neighbourhood in Singapore, and through the interactions between Singaporean residents and transient male migrant workers, how migrant workers are perceived and their treatment by locals in the neighbourhood. Following Foucault’s theory of governmentality and discipline, power is integrated within social relations that are structured by the social structure of laws, rules and norms. Thus, I seek to examine the position of transient migrant workers in relation to local Singaporeans in the neighbourhood and how this relates to the macro-structure of the state’s transient labour policies as well as its cosmopolitan narrative. This paper hopes to show how power operates through the state, social and individual level to render transient workers as the vulnerable migrant ‘Other’ in Singapore society. Bachelor of Arts 2017-04-07T04:41:17Z 2017-04-07T04:41:17Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70022 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf
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Loke, Zhen Yi
Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore
description This paper seeks to understand the forms everyday negotiations of diversity take in the ‘heartland’neighbourhood in Singapore, and through the interactions between Singaporean residents and transient male migrant workers, how migrant workers are perceived and their treatment by locals in the neighbourhood. Following Foucault’s theory of governmentality and discipline, power is integrated within social relations that are structured by the social structure of laws, rules and norms. Thus, I seek to examine the position of transient migrant workers in relation to local Singaporeans in the neighbourhood and how this relates to the macro-structure of the state’s transient labour policies as well as its cosmopolitan narrative. This paper hopes to show how power operates through the state, social and individual level to render transient workers as the vulnerable migrant ‘Other’ in Singapore society.
author2 Teo You Yenn
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author Loke, Zhen Yi
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title Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore
title_short Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore
title_full Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore
title_fullStr Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Migrant workers and diversity in a ‘Heartland’ neighbourhood in Singapore
title_sort migrant workers and diversity in a ‘heartland’ neighbourhood in singapore
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