Book contents
- Everyday Justice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Everyday Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Theorizing Everyday Justice
- Part One Im/possibilities of Everyday Justice
- Chapter Two Street Justice
- Chapter Three Seeking Respect, Fairness, and Community
- Part Two The Force of Everyday Justice
- Part Three Everyday Justice Unbound
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter Three - Seeking Respect, Fairness, and Community
Low-Wage Migrants, Authoritarian Regimes, and the Everyday Urban
from Part One - Im/possibilities of Everyday Justice
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Book contents
- Everyday Justice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Everyday Justice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Theorizing Everyday Justice
- Part One Im/possibilities of Everyday Justice
- Chapter Two Street Justice
- Chapter Three Seeking Respect, Fairness, and Community
- Part Two The Force of Everyday Justice
- Part Three Everyday Justice Unbound
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
Singapore is a city-state with high dependencies on Asian low-wage migrants to work in dirty, dangerous, and undesirable jobs in domestic work, shipyards, construction sites, and factories. These are forms of labour shunned by citizens and the middle class in the city, and engender a highly stratified population, as well as separate everyday lives. Without legalized protections such as minimum wage laws, low-wage migrants constitute a very marginalized and vulnerable population. After riots by low-wage Indian migrants, their rights in the city have been further curtailed. Taking that incident as a starting point, this chapter examines how migrants themselves articulate notions of what is fair and just, within a space where their civil liberties are limited. Using ethnographic data, interview material, and media reports from Singapore, this chapter also examines state and non-governmental discourses of justice. It demonstrates the ways in which these varying claims and discourses are unequally salient yet mutually constitutive. In taking an approach to rights that focuses on access and inclusion within the city, this chapter questions fixed and uncontextualized epistemological and ontological starting points in determining what is fair, equitable, and just.
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- Everyday JusticeLaw, Ethnography, Injustice, pp. 58 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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