Millena Farias
Ph.D. Candidate - Graduate Program in Social History at the Department of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has a B.A....
Ph.D. Candidate - Graduate Program in Social History at the Department of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has a B.A....
Lauren Clingan is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Princeton University. Her research on gender and femininity uses economic sociological and intersectional feminist lenses. Her dissertation...
Zakia Essanhaji is a sociologist interested in issues of intersectional feminism, politics of knowledge production and diversity and inclusion. She obtained a master in Urban Studies...
Soft truths to keep Singapore from stalling.
Gold Standard provides a good account of how covid has highlighted the presence of the huge population of low-pay migrant workers in Singapore, heretofore hardly present in the consciousness of the local community at large. The high number of covid infection in this group (hundreds each day) compared to the much lower number in the community at large (several to ten-plus each day) brought about further segregation of the migrant workers and the local community, notwithstanding the new awareness of the migrant workers.
This work was made possible by the Splice Lights On Fund, which supports small to mid-sized news organisations and their freelancers in Asia that are financially affected by Covid-19.
by Sariya Idriss
“There is no “framework” behind which to hide, and I could not appear unflappable at will. I reasoned that pretending immunity to the pandemic’s global impacts wouldn’t be therapeutic, anyway. I confront the screen and this newfound vulnerability.”
by Janine Dahinden
How can the migrant-citizen nexus help us make sense of Europe’s nationalist reaction to COVID-19 and its consequences? Using the lens of the migrant-citizen nexus, I present some alternatives to these nationalism-based policies and measures. I focus on the Swiss case as a specific example of a more general pattern in Europe as a whole (and beyond).
University of the Philippines Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he...