Singapore saw a majority of COVID-19 infections plaguing low-skilled migrant construction
workers by late April 2020. In the initial phases of the outbreak, mainstream frames were …

How does precarious work entail social vulnerabilities and moral complicities? Theorists of
precarity pose two challenges for analysing labour conditions in Asia. Their first challenge is …

We propose a framework for citizen social science that brings together three reinforcing
elements of a research project–scale, citizen-leadership, and publicness–to improve …

This chapter presents a political economy of labour migration in Southeast Asia. It delineates
the importance of low-wage and high-wage labour migration to national development and …

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore was lauded for its early declaration of a
public health emergency, its assiduous testing regime and track and trace system, and its …

This article discusses the migrant worker poet Md Mukul Hossine. Showing Mukul as the
representative migrant worker poet also severely restricted and complicated his process of …

This essay explores what it means to theorize Han racism in Malaysian contexts, where
ethnic Chinese constitute a minority. Given the history of Malay political dominance and …

In neoliberal Singapore, capitalism thrives on the exploitation of low-waged migrant workers
who are attracted to Singapore to earn a living building and cleaning the city and serving its …

The pandemic made evident the wide inequalities facing migrant construction workers in
Singapore. Although the state's pandemic management sought to address uneven …

What has been the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on states and societies in East Asia,
and how have they responded in managing the atrocity risks that were present before and …