Migrant construction workers in Singapore produced TikTok videos sharing their structural,
social, and health conditions during the pandemic. The platform's user-centered design …

In this article, we first test theories on immigrant rights across 29 countries from Europe,
Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, using our Indicators of …

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 …

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 …

In this Element, I introduce the socio-legal study of politics of rights as the theoretical
framework to understand rights in the culturally and politically diverse region of Southeast …

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 …

Temporary migrant workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment,
work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an …

Accelerating inequalities, pandemics, climate colonialism, racism, and digital hate
perpetuated by the extractive forces of digital capital; expulsions of peoples into …

It is widely acknowledged that Singapore's labour-migration regime is unequal and
bifurcated, with migrants that are categorised as foreign professionals afforded many more …

Prevailing socio-legal structures create a state of personhood limbo for undocumented
workers, where broader society undermines various aspects of their personhood in a way …