Parallel Spaces of Migrant (Non-)Integration in Singapore: Latent Politics of Distance and Difference Within a Diverse Christian Community

Woods, Orlando; Kong, Lily

doi:10.1080/07256868.2020.1751601

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“…Our approach to distance is also influenced by Orlando Woods and Lily Kong's work on the latent politics of distance, exploring alternative geographies of migrant religion and how they can lead to the production of latent distances within and between migrant communities ( Woods and Kong, 2020 ). Woods and Kong describe these politics of distance as ‘latent’ as they are ‘subtle and nuanced, and often obfuscated by the overarching logic for separation’ ( Woods and Kong, 2020 : 349).…”

Section: The Politics Of Distancementioning

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Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment

POTTER,

MEIER

2024

Critical Social Policy

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This article considers how distanciation, understood as the active production of different forms of distance as a method of control, is used to manage people racialised and criminalised as migrants within the UK's hostile environment. Analysing different policies introduced under the hostile environment agenda, as well as the more recent New Plan for Immigration, we argue distanciation is a key tactic that shapes these policies and their implementation as well as offers us insight into changing forms of governing migration. Drawing on the analysis of a wide range of policy documents, the paper attends to different forms of distanciation used as a method of control within the UK's wider hostile environment and then presents the results of a case-study of how distanciation is mobilised within the English National Health Service, under the Migrant and Visitor Cost Recovery Programme in particular, which was introduced in 2014 to ensure the NHS receives ‘a fair contribution’ from people racialised as migrants. Addressing different forms of distanciation such as – spatial, legal and emotional – we argue that the lens of distance can offer insights into how detachment – increasing distance between different agents in immigration law and border enforcement is an intentional design to control empathy, solidarity and resistance. Tracing ways these forms of distanciation are designed into legislative and administrative measures helps us better understand how hostile environment policies work as well as locating agencies and possibilities of resistance within different spaces, agents and subjects of bordering.

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Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment

POTTER,

MEIER

2024

Critical Social Policy

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“…Whilst the project from which they are derived is ongoing, fieldwork has been paused since March 2020 due to COVID‐19 and the associated restrictions on social interaction. The project explores the role of religion—not just Islam, but Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Christianity as well—in mediating the ways in which Singaporeans encounter migrants, and open up or close down the possibilities for integration (see Woods and Kong, 2020; 2022b). The Muslim cohort involved 61 interviews of 45–120 min in duration.…”

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Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore

Woods

2022

Global Networks

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This paper explores how the (trans)nationalization of Islam can lead to differential understandings of the Muslim subject and secular citizen in Singapore. (Trans)nationalization problematizes the state-led regulation of religion by revealing the complexities that emerge when religious subject positions are indexed to citizenship status. Islamic expression is closely regulated in Singapore, meaning the Singaporean Muslim subject is framed by the state in secular-first terms. Complicating this framing is the presence of Bangladeshi migrant workers, who, by virtue of their visa and residency statuses, are viewed as transient members of society and denied access to citizenship. Non-citizenship causes a variety of Islamic expressions to become viable pathways to religious subject formation, including those associated with Islamic missionary movement, Tablighi Jamaat. By claiming these subject positions, Bangladeshi Tablighis become vectors through which Singapore's Muslim spaces are exposed to transnational Islamic influences, causing the mosque to be imbued with divergent, and sometimes contested, meanings and attributions of value.

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“…To some extent, we can assume that long-term residents and newcomers are characterised by "parallel lives." Moreover, the othering of newcomers can be projected onto the othering of spaces that they occupy (Woods and Kong, 2020). Such "spatial parallelism" in suburbia of the second-order city has some visible physical manifestations, in particular concerning area arrangement, composition of homesteading, and mobility.…”

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From the agricultural station to a luxury village? Changing and ambiguous everyday practices in the suburb of Vinnytsia (Ukraine)

Gnatiuk

Mezentsev

Provotar

2021

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The study of everyday practices, self-identities and perceptions seems to be a promising approach to understand the suburban spaces as not only static containers but socially constructed, dynamic and ambiguous entities. Our case study is represented by the suburban village of Ahronomichne, located in the peri-urban area of the second-order Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. The research methods included survey of residents (67 long-term residents and 59 newcomers), observations of the everyday activities of the residents and appearance of the build environment at seven observation points within the village, and four semi-structured in-depth interviews. We found that everyday practices of the long-term residents and newcomers significantly differ in terms of their set, spatial configuration and actual exercitation. The other important factors contributing to the variety of everyday practices and lifestyles are type of housing, age and family status. Simultaneously, we observed not just a combination but rather intertwining, mixing and hybridisation of urban, suburban and rural everyday practices and lifestyles. Another finding of the research was the western-type suburban growth of the second-order Ukrainian city in contrast to the largest cities of the country where centrifugal migrations of rich people to peri-urban area combines with the centripetal stream of less affluent migrant from peripheral settlements, keeping transitory residential strategy.

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Parallel Spaces of Migrant (Non-)Integration in Singapore: Latent Politics of Distance and Difference Within a Diverse Christian Community

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment

Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment

Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore

From the agricultural station to a luxury village? Changing and ambiguous everyday practices in the suburb of Vinnytsia (Ukraine)

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