Migrant Workers Fear Massive Singapore Dormitory Lockdown Is Coronavirus Time Bomb More Reuters Security and police officers are seen outside the entrance to Westlite Dormitory, one of the two workers' dormitory gazetted as isolation areas to curb the spread of coronavirus ...
Nearly half of Singapore's migrant workers residing in dormitories have had COVID-19, according to the government, indicating the virus spread much more widely among those living in these accommodations than the official case tally shows. Singapore has reported more than 58,0...
Before migrating to Malaysia, over 70% of the informants were employed—most commonly as factory workers, farm- ers, or as vendors. Eight informants worked in other countries before moving to Malaysia; three Indonesian women worked in Brunei, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore respectively while two ...
In addition, a mixed-methods study of migrant workers in Singapore found that threat of deportation was a proximal determinant for poor mental health (Harrigan and Koh, 2017). Unlike our results, which did not reveal a significant association between residence and HSCL scores, a study in ...
11. Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in East Asia Bell DA, Piper N (2006) Justice for migrant workers? The case of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore. In: Kymlicka W (ed) ... DA Bell - 《Beyond Liberal Democracy Political Thinking for ...
workers. So in Thailand alone, there are about 3 million eligible voters. When the new government took office in 2016, we provided suggestions about what preparations the government should make to enable migrant workers to easily and smoothly cast their votes, which is their right as citizens. ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore plans to test all 323,000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories that have become a hotbed for coronavirus in the tiny city-state, it said on Tuesday, eyeing an easing of curbs next month to restart its economy. The island's tally of 24,671 infecti...
Trend of HIV (A) and syphilis (B) prevalence (overall, migrants, residents) for the participants during 2010 to 2014 in Jiangsu. (Created by Microsoft Excel, Redmond, Washington, the United States available athttps://www.microsoftstore.com.cn/c/office?Icid=StoreNavi_Office). ...
The CCCF and Flextronics, a Singapore-based electronics manufacturer, together opened the center in the Qingxin industrial park. "Migrant workers need a lot of emotional support and help from social work organizations, which usually work withinresidential2communities. That's why we set up the center...
An overall review of Beijing’s housing reforms and the formation of typical low-income housing areas aims to establish the problem of housing inequality that has long afflicted both the local low-income inhabitants and migrant workers. A comparison is made between the local and non-local ...