Parallel spaces of migrant (non-)integration in Singapore: Latent politics of distance and difference within a diverse Christian community

• Main Authors: WOODS, Orlando, KONG, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Migrant communities; parallel spaces; ethno-national diversity; Christianity; Singapore.; Asian Studies; Civic and Community Engagement; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3188; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4445/viewcontent/Parallel_spaces_of_migrant__SV.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores how the spatial practices of churches can lead to the (non-)integration of migrant communities. Whilst churches bring migrants and non-migrants together in space and time, so too can they cause them to become divided along ethnic, national, linguistic and/or class-based lines. In...