Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate
change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible …

Adopting a case study approach, this paper examines unfree labour amongst labour
migrants from a temporal perspective. I draw on the notion of temporality specifically to refer …

Migration has opened up a new world of opportunity to many enterprising individuals in the
global South. South–South migration can be broadly understood as large-scale movement …

While work on the securitization of migration has often held borders to be the site at which
state power is most keenly felt, this paper draws on static and walking interviews with …

Construction sites are the deadliest workplaces in Singapore. In the first quarter of 2014
alone, there were 19 worksite fatalities; 12 occurred on construction sites. 1 The fatality rate …

Singapore is no stranger to migrants: over the past 50 years, the country has been a
destination for both labour migrants and asylum-seekers alike. This chapter outlines the …

The Bangladeshi diaspora consists of people of Bangladeshi descent who have immigrated
to or were born in another country. First generation migrants may have moved abroad from …

Increasing economic globalisation creates a supply of migrant workers from less developed
countries, which will engage in low-skilled jobs in developed countries in pursuit of a better …

Increasing economic globalisation creates a supply of migrant workers from less developed
countries, which will engage in low-skilled jobs in developed countries in pursuit of a better …

With nearly 8 million of its 160 million residents living abroad, Bangladesh has one of the
world's largest emigrant populations, ranking only behind India, Mexico, China, Russia, and …