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Soft violence: migrant domestic worker precarity and the management of unfree labour in Singapore

Authors :
Rachel Silvey
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Krittiya Kantachote
Source :
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 47:4671-4687
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2020.

Abstract

In Singapore, the temporary legal status of migrant domestic workers binds them in servitude to their employer-sponsor as their residency is contingent on their continuous and sole live-in employme...

Details

ISSN :
14699451 and 1369183X
Volume :
47
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........b916f2a01526746cf3d9c0de26497148
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2020.1732614