Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore

1 March 1998

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Studies

Vol. 35 (3) , 583-602
https://doi.org/10.1080/0042098984925

Abstract

This paper investigates migrant domestic workers as a marginalised group in Singapore's urban landscape by examining the ways in which their social maps are str...

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