Dangerous Migrants and the Informal Mobile City of Postwar Singapore

Seng, Loh Kah

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“…This is because state regulations determine housing regulations. 23 The HDB's main priority is building as much housing as possible because it estimates that an average of 14,000 housing units are needed annually. The program's primary focus was initially on low-income family rentals.…”

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Governing Illegal Settlements: Housing Policy in Singapore and Australia

Handayani,

Ehsonov

2024

JSDERI

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The increase in population has an impact on the proliferation of illegal settlements. This study determines and analyzes housing policies and administrative law enforcement about illegal settlements. The study uses normative legal research, which compares legal issues in two countries, Singapore and Australia. This research is descriptive, using both statute and conceptual approaches. The concept of administrative law enforcement and protecting citizens' fundamental rights are used as the basis for our analysis, combining it with legal system theory and administrative law enforcement. The research results show that, in substance, Singapore has a housing policy through Housing Development Board, which is carried out on a massive scale and is quite successful in dealing with illegal settlements in urban areas about the size of the country's territory. Structurally, government institutions carry out administrative law enforcement through warnings and demolitions. Meanwhile, Australia has not been entirely successful, even though collaboration has been carried out between governments through Australia for Affordable Housing, the private sector, and housing communities. Australia enforces the law by issuing orders to stop using unauthorized buildings and imposing financial sanctions. Affordable and fair housing policies that the enforcement of administrative law can accompany are more effective in reducing illegal settlements than relying solely on the enforcement of administrative law alone or even criminal law. According to a culture of legal awareness, settlers who face various economic and social pressures are more difficult to discipline.

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Governing Illegal Settlements: Housing Policy in Singapore and Australia

Handayani,

Ehsonov

2024

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“…belonging that recast cities as migrant places (Falzon 2003;Seng 2010) and the complexity of multi-scalar and multiple attachments across transnational and diasporic homes and cities (Georgiou 2006). Some of this research brings together an interest in the domestic and urban by focusing on migrant homes and homemaking in the city.…”

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Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta

Blunt

Bonnerjee

2013

Global Networks

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This article is about the city as home for people living in diaspora. We develop two key areas of debate. First, in contrast to research that explores diasporic homes in relation to domestic homemaking and/or the nation as home or 'homeland', we consider the city as home in diaspora. Second, building on research on transnational urbanism, translocality and the importance of the 'city scale' in migration studies, we argue that the city is a distinctive location of diasporic dwelling, belonging and attachment. Drawing on interviews with Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans who live in London and Toronto, we develop the idea of 'diaspora cities' to explore the importance of the city as home rather than the nation as 'homeland' for many people living in diaspora. This leads to an understanding of the importance of migration and diaspora within cities of departure as well as resettlement, and contributes a distinctively diasporic focus to broader work on comparative urbanism.

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The Spatial Organization of Inequality

Garrido

2024

American Journal of Sociology

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Dangerous Migrants and the Informal Mobile City of Postwar Singapore

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Governing Illegal Settlements: Housing Policy in Singapore and Australia

Governing Illegal Settlements: Housing Policy in Singapore and Australia

Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta

The Spatial Organization of Inequality

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