COVID-19, Authoritarian Neoliberalism, and Precarious Migrant Work in Singapore: Structural Violence and Communicative Inequality

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dc.citation.volume5
dc.contributor.authorDutta MJ
dc.contributor.editorSastry S
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-03T22:44:48Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:51:24Z
dc.date.available2020-08-20
dc.date.available2024-03-03T22:44:48Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:51:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-20
dc.description.abstractDrawing upon an ongoing ethnography with low-wage migrant workers in Singapore, this article builds on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach (CCA) to explore the experiences of the workers amid COVID-19 outbreaks in dormitories housing them. The CCA foregrounds the interplays of communicative and material inequalities, suggesting that the erasure of infrastructures of voices among the margins reproduces and circulates unhealthy structures that threaten the health and well-being of the working classes. The voices of the low-wage migrant workers who participated in this study document the challenges with poor housing, poor sanitation, and food insecurity that are compounded with the absence of information and voice infrastructures. Amid the everyday threats to health and well-being that are generated by neoliberal reforms across the globe, the hyper-precarious conditions of migrant work rendered visible by the trajectories of COVID-19 call for structurally transformative futures that are anchored in the voices of workers at the margins of neoliberal economies.
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dc.identifier.citationDutta MJ. (2020). COVID-19, Authoritarian Neoliberalism, and Precarious Migrant Work in Singapore: Structural Violence and Communicative Inequality. Frontiers in Communication. 5.
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fcomm.2020.00058
dc.identifier.eissn2297-900X
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.number58
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71030
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00058/full
dc.relation.isPartOfFrontiers in Communication
dc.rights(c) 2020 The Author
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectlow-wage migrant work
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectSingapore
dc.subjectauthoritarianism
dc.subjectoutbreak inequality
dc.subjectextreme neoliberalism
dc.subjectculture-centered approach
dc.subjectmigration
dc.titleCOVID-19, Authoritarian Neoliberalism, and Precarious Migrant Work in Singapore: Structural Violence and Communicative Inequality
dc.typeJournal article
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