H L Chee
Biographic Data
| ID | 45975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H L Chee |
| GIVEN NAMES | H L |
| FAMILY NAME | Chee |
| SIGNATURE | CHEE H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6731-8724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ties that bind, lines that divide
We investigate the racialization of a migrant “other” centred, not on phenotype, but on nationality, in the context of Malaysia, an ethnically diverse host society. Our case study comprises Bangladeshi male labour migrants who, as transient low-skilled workers, face restrictions in pursuing marriage and entrepreneurship. As Muslims, these Bangladeshi migrants draw on their co-religious congruence with the Malay-Muslim majority to traverse these r…
Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore
While mixed marriage can act as a ‘facilitator of integration’ for migrants, feminist scholars have argued that in Asia, pathways to citizenship for marriage migrants are precariously ridden with negotiations around gender, ethnicity, nationality and class. In this context, the family sphere lies between the individual migrant and the state, and features as a strategic site where citizenship categories take effect on migrant lives on the one hand…
Moralities in international medical travel
This paper views international medical travel through the lens of medical migrations and contextualises it within regional historical linkages. Drawing from fieldwork with staff, facilitators, and Indonesian patients in two Malaysian private hospitals, it frames international medical travel as a moral endeavour, and aims to uncover the premises that make this endeavour meaningful and desirable. Understanding moralities as a field of embodied pred…
Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism
We investigate international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities. Drawing upon narratives of local persons, medical traveller-patients, accompanying family members, hospital staff and medical travel facilitators, we illustrate how multifaceted linkages and processes generate and sustain the flow of patients across the border. In these narrati…
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage
International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in t…
International medical travel and the politics of transnational mobility in Asia
Regional circuits of international medical travel
Intra‐regional medical travel by patients from Indonesia to Penang in Malaysia is embedded in and facilitated by regional circuits. Although such movement is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the health‐care services offered in Indonesia, we argue that these contemporary movements for health care are also a continuation of existing exchanges for trade, education and cultural ties that have long existed. In the first part of the paper, we consider t…
Managing risk, making a match
In the last decade, while scholarly work on international marriages within East and Southeast Asia has increased, the role and significance of marriage brokers in facilitating this form of transnational mobility has been given little attention. This is a particularly obvious gap in knowledge in the Asian context, as migration is largely mediated by brokers who play a strategic role in navigating the complex systems of regulation involved in the i…
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state's attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing 'cost' of legality …
Perceptions of an 'international hospital' in Thailand by medical travel patients
Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction
This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucra…
The Place of Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Singapore
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 …
Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commercially-matched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men
Circuitous Pathways
This paper addresses the disjuncture between an immigration regime that seeks to prevent unskilled migrant workers from marrying citizens, and the reality that many are actually able to carve a marital pathway toward legality of residence. Beginning from the premise that the state constructs (il)legality through laws and policies, we draw from 38 interviews conducted among Indonesian migrant workers and their citizen spouses in Malaysia to highli…
From Client to Matchmaker
10.5509/201285191
Medical tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore
A striking feature of the medical tourist industry that has developed in Asia since the late 1990s is the involvement of States in supporting the private sector in marketing healthcare services to foreign patients. Malaysia and Singapore, two of the leading players in this field, have, since the 1980s, embarked on healthcare reforms, resulting in an enlarged private healthcare sector. The Singapore state, moving toward state corporatism, has adva…
Muslim-Non-Muslim Marriage
"This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives – legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing realities of Southeast Asia, home to the majority of Muslims in the world. Interreligious marriage is an important indicator of good relations betwee…
Ownership, control, and contention
Women in Malaysia
Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commercially-matched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men
Medical tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore
A striking feature of the medical tourist industry that has developed in Asia since the late 1990s is the involvement of States in supporting the private sector in marketing healthcare services to foreign patients. Malaysia and Singapore, two of the leading players in this field, have, since the 1980s, embarked on healthcare reforms, resulting in an enlarged private healthcare sector. The Singapore state, moving toward state corporatism, has adva…
Ownership, control, and contention
Managing risk, making a match
In the last decade, while scholarly work on international marriages within East and Southeast Asia has increased, the role and significance of marriage brokers in facilitating this form of transnational mobility has been given little attention. This is a particularly obvious gap in knowledge in the Asian context, as migration is largely mediated by brokers who play a strategic role in navigating the complex systems of regulation involved in the i…
Perceptions of an 'international hospital' in Thailand by medical travel patients
Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore
While mixed marriage can act as a ‘facilitator of integration’ for migrants, feminist scholars have argued that in Asia, pathways to citizenship for marriage migrants are precariously ridden with negotiations around gender, ethnicity, nationality and class. In this context, the family sphere lies between the individual migrant and the state, and features as a strategic site where citizenship categories take effect on migrant lives on the one hand…
From Client to Matchmaker
10.5509/201285191
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage
International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in t…
Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction
This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucra…
The Place of Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Singapore
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 …
Moralities in international medical travel
This paper views international medical travel through the lens of medical migrations and contextualises it within regional historical linkages. Drawing from fieldwork with staff, facilitators, and Indonesian patients in two Malaysian private hospitals, it frames international medical travel as a moral endeavour, and aims to uncover the premises that make this endeavour meaningful and desirable. Understanding moralities as a field of embodied pred…
Regional circuits of international medical travel
Intra‐regional medical travel by patients from Indonesia to Penang in Malaysia is embedded in and facilitated by regional circuits. Although such movement is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the health‐care services offered in Indonesia, we argue that these contemporary movements for health care are also a continuation of existing exchanges for trade, education and cultural ties that have long existed. In the first part of the paper, we consider t…
International medical travel and the politics of transnational mobility in Asia
Circuitous Pathways
This paper addresses the disjuncture between an immigration regime that seeks to prevent unskilled migrant workers from marrying citizens, and the reality that many are actually able to carve a marital pathway toward legality of residence. Beginning from the premise that the state constructs (il)legality through laws and policies, we draw from 38 interviews conducted among Indonesian migrant workers and their citizen spouses in Malaysia to highli…
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state's attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing 'cost' of legality …
Women in Malaysia
Women in Malaysia
Ownership, control, and contention
Muslim-Non-Muslim Marriage
"This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives – legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing realities of Southeast Asia, home to the majority of Muslims in the world. Interreligious marriage is an important indicator of good relations betwee…
Medical tourism and the state in Malaysia and Singapore
A striking feature of the medical tourist industry that has developed in Asia since the late 1990s is the involvement of States in supporting the private sector in marketing healthcare services to foreign patients. Malaysia and Singapore, two of the leading players in this field, have, since the 1980s, embarked on healthcare reforms, resulting in an enlarged private healthcare sector. The Singapore state, moving toward state corporatism, has adva…
Circuitous Pathways
This paper addresses the disjuncture between an immigration regime that seeks to prevent unskilled migrant workers from marrying citizens, and the reality that many are actually able to carve a marital pathway toward legality of residence. Beginning from the premise that the state constructs (il)legality through laws and policies, we draw from 38 interviews conducted among Indonesian migrant workers and their citizen spouses in Malaysia to highli…
From Client to Matchmaker
10.5509/201285191
The Place of Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Singapore
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 …
Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commercially-matched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men
Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction
This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucra…
Perceptions of an 'international hospital' in Thailand by medical travel patients
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state's attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing 'cost' of legality …
Medical travel facilitators, private hospitals and international medical travel in assemblage
International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to the rise of corporate hospital care in Malaysia in t…
International medical travel and the politics of transnational mobility in Asia
Regional circuits of international medical travel
Intra‐regional medical travel by patients from Indonesia to Penang in Malaysia is embedded in and facilitated by regional circuits. Although such movement is fuelled by dissatisfaction with the health‐care services offered in Indonesia, we argue that these contemporary movements for health care are also a continuation of existing exchanges for trade, education and cultural ties that have long existed. In the first part of the paper, we consider t…
Managing risk, making a match
In the last decade, while scholarly work on international marriages within East and Southeast Asia has increased, the role and significance of marriage brokers in facilitating this form of transnational mobility has been given little attention. This is a particularly obvious gap in knowledge in the Asian context, as migration is largely mediated by brokers who play a strategic role in navigating the complex systems of regulation involved in the i…
Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism
We investigate international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities. Drawing upon narratives of local persons, medical traveller-patients, accompanying family members, hospital staff and medical travel facilitators, we illustrate how multifaceted linkages and processes generate and sustain the flow of patients across the border. In these narrati…
Moralities in international medical travel
This paper views international medical travel through the lens of medical migrations and contextualises it within regional historical linkages. Drawing from fieldwork with staff, facilitators, and Indonesian patients in two Malaysian private hospitals, it frames international medical travel as a moral endeavour, and aims to uncover the premises that make this endeavour meaningful and desirable. Understanding moralities as a field of embodied pred…
Transnational marriage migration and the negotiation of precarious pathways beyond partial citizenship in Singapore
While mixed marriage can act as a ‘facilitator of integration’ for migrants, feminist scholars have argued that in Asia, pathways to citizenship for marriage migrants are precariously ridden with negotiations around gender, ethnicity, nationality and class. In this context, the family sphere lies between the individual migrant and the state, and features as a strategic site where citizenship categories take effect on migrant lives on the one hand…
Ties that bind, lines that divide
We investigate the racialization of a migrant “other” centred, not on phenotype, but on nationality, in the context of Malaysia, an ethnically diverse host society. Our case study comprises Bangladeshi male labour migrants who, as transient low-skilled workers, face restrictions in pursuing marriage and entrepreneurship. As Muslims, these Bangladeshi migrants draw on their co-religious congruence with the Malay-Muslim majority to traverse these r…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Travel-related health issues (6 works)