Hi guys, thanks for listening if you made it all the way to the end! Just to clarify a few things: Singapore is in Southeast Asia but the module I am taking is to do with Seoul, which fits into my interest of East Asia; also in case it wasn’t clear at the beginning, these bomb shelters are attached to the flat of the helper’s employer. Big thank you to Ceri for helping me with this project, and hope you learnt something new!
Tiktok we are talking about: https://www.tiktok.com/@ricemedia.co/video/7447738852669803784?q=ricemedia.co&t=1740762930091
(This is just for fun, as a mid-term project for my “Global Cities: Seoul and comparative perspectives” module :) )
Reference list:
Huang, Shirlena, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh. 1996. “Ties That Bind: State Policy and Migrant Female Domestic Helpers in Singapore.” Geoforum 27 (4): 479–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7185(96)00023-1.
Leyl, Sharanjit. 2013. “Singapore Domestic Workers’ Day Off.” BBC News, September 26, 2013. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24216611.
(@ricemedia.co). 2024. ““We are not looking for a big bedroom. We just want a comfortable one to rest after work.” #domestichelper #hdb #sgnews.” Tik Tok, December 13, 2024. https://www.tiktok.com/@ricemedia.co/video/7447738852669803784?q=ricemedia.co&t=1740762930091
Tallara, Mark Inigo M. n.d. “Shared Catholicism in Southeast Asia: Overseas Filipino Prayer Groups and the Charismatic Spaces in Singapore, an Ethnohistorical Analysis.” Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University. Accessed March 1, 2025. https://www.dlsu.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/pdf/conferences/research-congress-proceedings/2020/LCC-07.pdf.
Yeoh, B S A, and S Huang. 1999. “Spaces at the Margins: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Development of Civil Society in Singapore.” Environment and Planning A 31 (7): 1149–67. https://doi.org/10.1068/a311149.
Yeoh, Brenda S. A., and Kavitha Annadhurai. 2008. “Civil Society Action and the Creation of ‘Transformative’ Spaces for Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore.” Women’s Studies 37 (5): 548–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497870802165502.
Yeoh, Brenda S. A., Shirlena Huang, and Theresa W. Devasahayam. 2004. “Diasporic Subjects in the Nation: Foreign Domestic Workers, the Reach of Law and Civil Society in Singapore.” Asian Studies Review 28 (1): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1035782042000194491.
