Vital yet vulnerable: Mental and emotional health of South Asian migrant Workers in Singapore

• Main Authors: HARRIGAN, Nicholas, KOH, Chiu Yee
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• 主題: migrant workers; Singapore; foreign workers; unmet needs; housing; wages; Asian Studies; Inequality and Stratification; Race and Ethnicity
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1764; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3021/viewcontent/Vital_Yet_Vulnerable.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Numbering nearly one million persons, low-waged, low-skilled migrant workers are a vital yet vulnerable part of Singapore’s economy and society. This study, undertaken several months before the Little India riots of December 2013, measures the psychological distress of 261 South Asian Work Permit ho...