Transiting into Singaporean identity
Immigration and naturalisation policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15538520 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathews Mathew (0000-0002-1313-7351, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Debbie Soon (National University of Singapore) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-48 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MIGRATION LETTERS (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-8984 • E-ISSN: 1741-8992 |
| Publisher | Dewspublication (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33182/ml.v13i1.262 |
| OpenAlex | W2237056299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Debates in Singapore about immigration and naturalisation policy have escalated substantially since 2008 when the government allowed an unprecedentedly large number of immigrants into the country. This essay will discuss immigration and naturalisation policy in Singapore and the tensions that have been evoked, and how these policies are a key tool in regulating the optimal composition and size of the population for the state’s imperatives. It will demonstrate that although the state has, as part of its broader economic and manpower planning policy to import labour for economic objectives, it seeks to retain only skilled labour with an exclusive form of citizenship. Even as the Singapore state has made its form of citizenship even more exclusive by reducing the benefits that non-citizens receive, its programmes for naturalising those who make the cut to become citizens which include the recently created Singapore Citizenship Journey (SCJ) is by no means burdensome from a comparative perspective. This paper examines policy discourse and the key symbols and narratives provided at naturalisation events and demonstrates how these are used to evoke the sense of the ideal citizen among new Singaporeans
Citizenship · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Immigration policy · Linguistics · Narrative · Naturalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |