The Singapore State’s Response to Migration

Yap, Mui Teng

doi:10.1355/sj14-1h

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“…During the 1970s and 1980s emigration was viewed as a sign of disloyalty to the newly independent nation. But rising emigration rates (Yap, ) coupled with the new strategy emphasizing the internationalization of Singaporean human capital led to a change in the state's attitudes. The transition was signalled tentatively in government speeches initially and subsequently incorporated into the mission of a government agency, Contact Singapore (set up in 1998), alongside its original mandate to headhunt highly skilled foreigners for Singapore.…”

Section: Diaspora Strategies As a Paradigm Shift In Singapore's Develmentioning

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Migration‐as‐development repackaged? The globalizing imperative of the Singaporean state's diaspora strategies

Boyle

2015

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Diaspora strategizing is becoming an important field of public policy in countries that seek to advance development through migration. Diaspora strategies present a way of complicating interpretations of development, as countries that represent different levels of development seek to mobilize diaspora networks nonetheless. While Singapore's diaspora strategies prioritize diaspora knowledge networks, it bears the stamp of the country's colonial history, postcolonial priorities and developmental state apparatus. We suggest that these factors result in a distinctive diaspora strategy characterized by a centralized and technocratic approach more similar to diaspora strategies found in emerging economies. Earlier research on diaspora strategies has been concerned with assessing successes or failures, but a more critical scholarship that questions the logics and outcomes of diaspora strategizing is emerging. We bring the Singaporean case into dialogue with four such critiques: first, the intellectual foundations of diaspora-centred development; second, the hyperextension of state infrastructure for emigration and stakeholder alignment; third, the selective mobilization of the idea of diaspora; and fourth, the evidence base upon which diasporacentred development is predicated. Our goal is to further critical interrogation into the logics, efficacy and sustainability of diaspora strategizing. We situate our analyses in the international literature on diaspora knowledge mobilization.

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Section: Diaspora Strategies As a Paradigm Shift In Singapore's Develmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration‐as‐development repackaged? The globalizing imperative of the Singaporean state's diaspora strategies

Boyle

2015

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…Population mobility increases with economic growth and globalization (Pillai, 1999). Migration may affect a country in term of social, economic, and political factors, and there are many fundamental tensions that underlie efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world (Yap, 1999). This is an electronic version of an article published as: Abdul-Rahman, H., Wang, C., Wood, L. C., Low, S. F. (2012) Negative impact induced by foreign workers: Evidence in Malaysian construction sector, Habitat International, 36(4), pp.…”

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Negative impact induced by foreign workers: Evidence in Malaysian construction sector

Abdul‐Rahman

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Habitat International

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Though foreign workers served to overcome the labor shortage in the Malaysian construction market, overdependence on foreign workers and the negative impacts induced have become a serious social problem. The aims of this research are to identify those negative impacts induced by foreign workers in the Malaysian construction market and to determine strategies in minimizing these negative impacts. Data were collected through a structured interview and survey. The questionnaires were delegated to professionals in construction projects who have direct contacts with foreign workers. Only respondents from those companies registered under the CIDB grade G7 were chosen for this survey. There were 117 sets of questionnaires completed and analyzed through the structured interviews. The three principal factors attracting foreign workers to the Malaysian construction market are "Preference of the employers", "Lifestyle and working conditions", and

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“…Singapore is a good setting to compare skilled local and foreign workers because Singapore's high economic growth creates chronic labor shortages and Singapore has a history of employing foreign workers as skilled employees (Verma, et al, 1995). Foreign workers account for a sizeable 20 per cent of the existing workforce in Singapore (Yap, 1999). Unemployment has been about 1.8 per cent, and the annual job vacancy rate at 18-25 per cent (Ang, Tan, & Ng, 2000;Bian & Ang, 1997).…”

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“…Other parts of the world (notably Australia, Canada, and the Middle East) also experience skilled labor shortages and rely heavily on foreign workers (Sowell, 1996). In Singapore, there are approximately half a million foreign workers, a sizeable 20 per cent of the workforce (Verma, Kochan, & Lansbury, 1995;Yap, 1999).…”

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The employment relationships of foreign workers versus local employees: a field study of organizational justice, job satisfaction, performance, and OCB

2003

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SummaryForeign workers seek overseas employment without sponsorship from a firm in their home country and hold temporary work visas in the host country. Despite the rising numbers of foreign workers, there is very little research that examines employment relationships and work behaviors of foreign workers. In this study, we draw on social exchange theory and predict differences in work perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of foreign versus local employees based on differences in their exchange relationships. We then draw on social comparison theories and propose that these differences in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors will be accentuated for workers in jobs with high task interdependence. We examined these hypotheses in a field study of 466 ethnic Chinese employees (213 foreign workers from the People's Republic of China and 253 local workers in Singapore with ongoing employment status). Results demonstrate lower distributive justice judgments, performance, and organizational citizenship for foreign versus local employees. Furthermore, results demonstrate that differences in distributive and procedural justice, performance, and organizational citizenship were heightened by task interdependence. We discuss findings and the implications of employing foreign workers.

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The Singapore State’s Response to Migration

Cited by 15 publications

References 2 publications

Migration‐as‐development repackaged? The globalizing imperative of the Singaporean state's diaspora strategies

Migration‐as‐development repackaged? The globalizing imperative of the Singaporean state's diaspora strategies

Negative impact induced by foreign workers: Evidence in Malaysian construction sector

The employment relationships of foreign workers versus local employees: a field study of organizational justice, job satisfaction, performance, and OCB

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