Critically examine the unequal experiences of migrant workers in the Global City. Use Singapore as a case study to illustrate your answer.

 

 

 

 

3,500 words (excluding bibliography, +/- 10%)

 

 

Essay Question: Critically examine the unequal experiences of migrant workers in the Global City. Use Singapore as a case study to illustrate your answer.

 

 

 

 

Please feel free to use the readings below and from your own research.

 

Sassen, S. (2001). The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier. Seminar, Vol 503, July 2001, New Delhi.​

 

Yeoh, B. & Huang, S. (2011). Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (5): 681-690.

 

Anjaria, J. (2020). Surface Pleasures: Bicycling and the Limits of Infrastructural Thinking. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 43 (2): 267-280.

——- (2009). Guardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space and Middle Class Activism in Mumbai. City & Community, 8 (4): 391-406.

Anjaria, J. & Anjaria, U. (2020). Mazaa: Rethinking Fun, Pleasure and Play in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43 (2): 232-242.

Beaverstock, J. (2011). Servicing British Expatriate ‘Talent’ in Singapore: Exploring Ordinary Transnationalism and the Role of the ‘Expatriate’ Club. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (5): 709-728.

Cranston, S. & Lloyd, J. (2019). Bursting the Bubble: Spatialising Safety for Privileged Migrant Women in Singapore. Antipode, 51 (2): 478–496.

Junjia Ye & Kelly, P. (2011). Cosmopolitanism at Work: Labour Market Exclusion in Singapore’s Financial Sector. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (5): 691-707.

Junjia Ye & Yeoh, B. (2018). Disciplining Deserving Subjects through Social Assistance: Migration and the Diversification of Precarity in Singapore. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108 (2): 478–485.

Knox, P. (2002). World Cities and the Organisation of Global Space. In R .Johnston, J. P. J. Taylor & M. J. Watts (eds), Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World, 2nd ed, UK: Blackwell Publishing.​

Logan, W. (2002). The Disappearing ‘Asian’ City: Protecting Asia’s Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.​

Loh Kah Seng (2010). Dangerous Migrants and the Informal Mobile City of Postwar Singapore. Mobilities, 5 (2): 197–218.

McFarlane, C. & Desai, R. (2015). Sites of entitlement claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai. Environment and Urbanization, 27(2): 441-454.

Mukhopadhyay, C. (2018). IS the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) an Emerging ‘Megaregion’ in India? Planning Theory & Practice, 19 (2): 305–309.

Patel, S. & Masselos, J. (2005). Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition. Oxford University Press: India.

Platt, M., Baey, G., Yeoh, B., Choon Yen Khoo & Lam, T (2017). Debt, precarity and gender: male and female temporary labour migrants in Singapore. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (1): 119 – 136.

Peidong Yang (2018). Desiring ‘foreign talent’: lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44 (6): 1015-31.

Sassen, S. (2001). The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier. Seminar, Vol 503, July 2001, New Delhi. ​https://www.india-seminar.com/2001/503/503%20saskia%20sassen.htm

Wee, K., Goh, C., & Yeoh, B. (2020). Choreographing the rhythms of encounter in Singapore’s maid agencies. Transactions of the Institute of British Geography, 45:109 – 122.

Xinyu Guan (2020). A megastructure in Singapore: The ‘Asian city of tomorrow?’. Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 86 : 53–68

Yap, C. & McFarlane, C. (2020). Understanding and Researching Urban Extreme Poverty: A Conceptual-Methodological Approach. Environment and Urbanization, 32(1): 254-274.

Yap, E. (2013). The Transnational Assembling of Marina Bay, Singapore. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 34: 390–406.

Yen-Fen Tseng (2011). Shanghai Rush: Skilled Migrants in a Fantasy City. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (5): 765-784.

Yeoh, B. & Huang, S. (2010). Transnational Domestic Workers and the Negotiation of Mobility and Work Practice in Singapore’s Home-Spaces. Mobilities, 5 (2): 219–236.

Yeoh, B. & Huang, S. (2011). Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (5): 681-690.

Yeoh, B. & Soco, M. A. (2014). The cosmopolis and the migrant domestic worker. Cultural Geographies, 21 (2): 171–187.

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