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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Pictures; List of Tables; List of Non-English (Bengali) Words; 1 Migration of Labour in the Global South: An Introduction; Linking Migration Causes to Migration Outcomes; Conceptualizing Migration as a Social Process; Researching Bangladeshi Migration; Research Methodology; Fieldwork in Singapore; Fieldwork in Bangladesh; Structure of the Book; 2 Immigration and Integration Policy in Singapore; Immigration Research in Singapore; Nature of Immigration Policy; Broader Features of Immigration Policy in Singapore |
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Classes of Non-resident Foreign Manpower in SingaporeEmployment Pass (EP) and Special (S) Pass for Professional and Skilled Foreign Manpower; Work Permit (WP) for Semi-skilled Foreign Manpower; Administrative and Legal Frameworks for Managing Foreigners; Specific Policies Targeting Semi-skilled Foreign Workers; Pathways of Professional, Skilled, and Semi-skilled Foreigners; Integration of Immigrants and Emigrants into the Singapore Society; 3 Social Imperatives of Labour Migration; Social Organizations in a Bangladeshi Village; Claiming Social Status: From Traditional Tools to New Tools |
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Relative Social Status: A Crucial Sending-End FactorThe Geographical Imagination: Perception of Bidesh; Migration, Remigration, and the Cultural Notion of Work; The Diminishing Role of Conventional Education; 4 Channelling Bangladeshi Migrants to Singapore; Interplay Between Networks and Institutions; The Migrant Network Sphere; Social Bases of Network-Assisted Migration; Formation and Operation of Migrant Networks; The Recruitment Sphere; The Recruitment Structure; The Economic Aspect of Recruitment; Reciprocity and Migration; The Other Side of Social Capital |
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5 Social Worlds of Migrants in SingaporeWorking Conditions; Living Situations; Medical Care; Religious Life; Migrant Poetry: A Reflection on Migrant Life; Migrant-Focused Organizations; 6 Remittance as a Social Process; Data Sources; Remittance Transfer Channels; Remittance Prices; Context of Remittance-Sending; Context of Remittance Receiving; Recipients of Remittances; Remittance Control; Use of Remittances: The Migrant Worker's Perspective; Use of Remittances: The Household's Perspective; 7 Migration and Family Dynamics; Impacts of Migration on Demographic Structure |
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Impacts of Migration on Economic ConditionsImpacts of Migration on Education, Medical Care, and Food Consumption; Homes in Migrant Baris: Cultural Consumption and Status Display; Dhadon: A Business Enterprise for Migrant Wives; Outward and Upward Social Mobility; Generational Dynamics; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South-South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South-South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact this temporary form of migration has for migrants and their families. The book adopts a relatively new methodological approach to labour migration by linking different phases that migrants undergo in the migration process and by combining migrants in the host country with their families in the origin country. This is achieved through identifying and addressing six key areas: (i) migration policy, (ii) social imperatives of migration (iii) recruitment, (iv) social worlds of the migrants, (v) remittance process, and finally, (vi) family development dynamics. This book introduces the bari to migration research as a unit of analysis over and above individual and family units. The book reveals how social and cultural forces both initiate and perpetuate migration, and later on influence bari dynamics.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31, 2017) |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Bangladeshi -- Singapore
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Migrant labor -- Bangladesh
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Development economics & emerging economies.
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Emigration and immigration
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Foreign workers, Bangladeshi
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Migrant labor
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| SUBJECT |
Bangladesh -- Emigration and immigration
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Singapore -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Bangladesh
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Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811038587 |
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9811038589 |
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