The Online Citizen Expose: Repatriation Companies
The Online Citizentheonlinecitizen.com/2009/01/toc-expose-repatriation-companies has various other articles written on foreign workers in Singapore. Oh and if you have the time, check out the comments that follow the articles: they can either amuse you or make your blood boil further.
The following is a clearly written piece by Jolovan Wham, social ( Read more... )
I agree that Singaporeans can be xenophobic, regardless of whether we're talking about foreign talent or foreign workers. Although, the former , being well-educated, highly paid and enjoying a significantly greater amount of social/job mobility does not bear the brunt of it all as the latter does. We certainly will not hear of repatriation companies being hired by banks or pharmaceutical firms to forcibly remove or constrian their employees to leave the country. Singapore is an extremely classed society - it is just usually not articulated as such in our wonderful first world, built on "meritocracy". This is not just a class issue, but one which also intersects with race - Singaporeans have come to see certain people as more deserving, more suitable for certain types of jobs than others. There is a stigmatized poor urban class in Singapore - but because they are mostly ("mostly" being key because there are also many poor Singaporeans) transient workers, there is the reluctance to deal with their welfare issues. And legalizing "security companies" is another way of ensuring their transience and obedience here.
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