Maria Platt, Grace Baey, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Choon Yen Khoo et al.
As one of Asia’s key hubs for transient workers, Singapore’s migration regime creates particularly gendered streams of labour, especially among lower skilled occupations, as is apparent in two key sectors – domestic work and construction work. Drawing on surveys with Bangladeshi construction worker..
Grace Baey, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Within the scholarship on precarity, low-waged contract-based migrants are recognized as centrally implicated in precarious employment conditions at the bottom of neoliberal capitalist labor markets. Precarity as a socially corrosive condition stems from both the multiple insecurities of the workpla...
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Grace Baey, Maria Platt, Kellynn Wee
The most iconic image of the foreign construction worker in Singapore’s popular imagination is a figure perilously secured by safety harnesses atop a half completed high-rise building. However, we argue that an understanding of the labour process involved in fashioning the migrant worker is predicat...
Grace Baey, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
To the extent that circular labour migration in Southeast Asia is increasingly dominated by migrants concentrated amongst the low-wage/-skilled occupational sectors, it may be observed that migration and precarious work are mutually constitutive in significant ways. Inasmuch as migration is frequent...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Abstract The informal funds transfer system found among South Asian migrant workers in general and Bangladeshi migrant workers in particular in the major labour-receiving countries of East and South-east Asia is popularly known as hundi. The hundi is informal but highly organized and founded on soci...
Mizanur Rahman, Tai Yong Tan, AKM Ahsan Ullah
Migrant Remittances in South Asia: An Introduction Md Mizanur Rahman, Tan Tai Yong and AKM Ahsan Ullah PART I: REMITTANCE AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. Understanding Remittances: Theoretical and Methodological Issues Md Mizanur Rahman and Lian Kwen Fee 2. Gender and Remittances: Remodelling Remittance Ex...
Heng Leng Chee, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Wan Teng Lai
We investigate the racialization of a migrant “other” centred, not on phenotype, but on nationality, in the context of Malaysia, an ethnically diverse host society. Our case study comprises Bangladeshi male labour migrants who, as transient low-skilled workers, face restrictions in pursuing marriage...
Ingrid Palmary, Thea de Gruchy, ASM Ali Ashraf, Chiu Yee Koh et al.
Abstract In this article we contribute to the emerging knowledge on migration policy‐making in two ways. Firstly, we address the relative lack of research on the gendered nature of migration policy‐making. Secondly we contribute to understanding migration policymaking in postcolonial contexts. Based...
Ingrid Palmary, Thea de Gruchy, Ali Ashraf, Koh Chiu Yee et al.
In this paper we consider four factors that shaped the development of migration policy intended to protect the rights of vulnerable migrant women. They are: the role players in the policy change process, the debates that shaped the policy change, the role that research played and the political conte...
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Grace Baey, Maria Platt, Kellynn Wee
Abstract This chapter delves into the complexities of the Bangladeshi construction workforce in Singapore, illustrating how their labour and mobility are intricately managed within the city-state’s rapid urban development framework. It emphasises the broader concept of (im)mobility, showing that the...
Heng Leng Chee, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Wan Teng Lai
We investigate the racialization of a migrant “other” centred, not on phenotype, but on nationality, in the context of Malaysia, an ethnically diverse host society. Our case study comprises Bangladeshi male labour migrants who, as transient low-skilled workers, face restrictions in pursuing marriage...
Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Grace Baey, Maria Platt, Kellynn Wee
Grace Baey, Brenda S. A. Yeoh