What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant
workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently …

How best to integrate migrant workers in host societies has been a longstanding question in
the study of migration and globalisation. Scholars have been conceptualising new modes of …

This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between
Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination …

This paper presents an analysis of the predictors of anti-immigrant attitudes in the
postcolonial society of Singapore based on an examination of the impact of group threat on …

Purpose This paper examines cases of multiculturalism in Singapore and Malaysia. Through
causal sociocultural mechanisms, the authors observe how two countries in proximity, with …

In existing scholarship on migrant encounters, there is a tendency to dismiss fleeting
encounters between random strangers in public spaces as superficial, or to treat such …

While the reliance of hybrid regimes on tools of democratic consultation has been well-
documented, public participation in policy implementation is less studied. This article …

Migrant workers are considered to be a vital source of cheap labour to Singapore's economy
and their temporary status, including housing, work and personal time is highly regulated …

This book interrogates the politics and practices of multiculturalism and multicultural
education in contexts where liberal and critical multiculturalism is under pressure. It …

Foreigners accounted for 3.3% of the total population, with 51.8 million of the total
population of Korea in 2020. Among these foreigners, the economically active population is …