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The Place of Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Singapore: social reproduction, social ‘problems’ and social protection

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  • Brenda SA Yeoh
  • Heng Leng Chee
  • Grace HY Baey

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While the literature on ‘global care chains’ has focused on the international transfer of paid reproductive labour in the form of domestic service and care work, a parallel trend takes the form of women marriage migrants, who perform unpaid labour to maintain households and reproduce the next generation. Drawing on our work with commercially matched Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore, we analyse the existing immigration–citizenship regime to examine how these marriage migrants are positioned within the family and nation-state as dependants of Singaporean men with no rights to work, residency or citizenship of their own. Incipient discussions on marriage migrants in civil society discourse have tended to follow a ‘social problems’ template, requiring legislative support and service provisioning to assist vulnerable women. We argue for the need to adopt an expansive approach to social protection issues, depending not on any one single source—the state, civil society and the family—but on government action to ensure that these complement one another and strengthen safety nets for the marriage migrant.

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  • Brenda SA Yeoh & Heng Leng Chee & Grace HY Baey, 2013. "The Place of Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Singapore: social reproduction, social ‘problems’ and social protection," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(10), pages 1927-1941, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:10:p:1927-1941
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.851959
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