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Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this book examines the social, economic, and political issues that have arisen with the influx of foreigners in Singapore since the turn of the 21st century. It draws on empirical research documenting the impact of migration on Singapore and provides scholarly analysis of the longer-term implications of these trends, with each chapter covering a different aspect of socio-cultural, political, or economic outcome arising from intercultural contact and adaptation.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Immigration and Integration in Singapore: Trends, Rationale and Policy Responses 2. Social Markers of Integration: What Matters Most to Singaporeans 3. Integration at the Workplace 4. International Students in Singapore Schools: How are they Integrating? 5. Integration in the Singapore Heartlands 6. Images of the Migrant Worker in Singapore’s Mainstream News Media: Prospects for Integration 7. Images of the New Citizen and PR in Singapore’s Mainstream News Media: Prospects for Integration 8. Stepping Stone Singapore: The Cultural Politics of Anti-Immigrant Anxieties
About the author
Yap Mui Teng is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Gillian Koh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Debbie Soon is a Research Associate at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
