dc.contributor.author | Baey , Grace | |
dc.contributor.author | Yeoh, Brenda S.A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-05T15:23:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-05T15:23:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Baey, G., & Yeoh, B. S. A. (2018). "The lottery of my life": Migration trajectories and the production of precarity among Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore's construction industry. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 27(3), 249-272. https://doi.org/10.1177/0117196818780087 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/15065 | |
dc.description.abstract | Within the scholarship on precarity, low-waged contract-based migrants are recognized as centrally implicated in precarious employment conditions at the bottom of neoliberal capitalist labor markets. Precarity as a socially corrosive condition stems from both the multiple insecurities of the workplace as disposable labor, and a sense of deportability as migrant subjects with marginal socio-legal status in the host society. Our study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore contributes to refining understandings of precarity by approaching labor migration as a cumulative, intensively mediated process, whereby risks and vulnerabilities are compounded across different sites in migrants' trajectories, even as they enact themselves as mobile, aspiring subjects. As a condition-in-the-making, precarity is experienced and compounded, through a continuum beginning in pre-migration indebtedness, multiplying through entanglements with the migration industry, and manifesting in workplace vulnerabilities at destination. It is most finely balanced when predictability and planning yield to arbitrary hope. | |
dc.publisher | Sage - Asia and Pacific Migration Journal | |
dc.rights.uri | https://www.ids.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IDSOpenDocsExternalDocuments.pdf | |
dc.title | "The Lottery of My life": Migration Trajectories and the Production of Precarity Among Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in Singapore's Construction Industry | |
dc.type | other | |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0117196818780087?journalCode=amja | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0117196818780087 | |