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Foreigners not as wanted as before in Singapore - Asia Times
▻https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/foreigners-not-as-wanted-as-before-in-singapore

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Singapore’s success as a global business hub has hinged on its openness to global capital and labor flows, a formula that is under unprecedented strain in the Covid-19 era. The pandemic has put a spotlight on low-wage migrant workers often employed in the construction sector who account for around 95% of the city-state’s recorded 57,500 infections. Issues related to rising immigration and skilled foreign labor have, on the other hand, stoked a polarizing debate and stirred exclusionary sentiments, particularly toward professional migrants from India who some critics and netizens view as being overrepresented in well-paid sectors such as information technology and banking. “Attitudes towards middle-class migrants are similar to global sentiments under these pandemic conditions and are characterized by heightened xenophobia in many cases, seeing migrants as competing for scarce jobs and resources with citizens,” said Laavanya Kathiravelu, a sociologist at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.
Opposition parties notably increased their vote share at the polls after pressing the PAP on immigration and foreign worker issues on the campaign trail. At the first session of Parliament since the polls, Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh called for anti-discrimination laws to punish companies that discriminate against hiring Singaporean workers.
Prior to that, in August, the government said it would raise the minimum monthly

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#singapour#economie#sante#immigration#xenophonie#travailleurmigrant

#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #singapour #expatries #economie ’End of Singapore’ for expats as government tells firms to hire locals in coronavirus crisis
▻https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/end-singapore-expats-government-tells-firms-hire-locals-coronavirus

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#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #expatries #singapour #economie Singapore’s Coveted Expat Jobs Threatened by Local Hire Push
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/singapore-expat-jobs-under-threat-in-recession-local-hire-push

Frustrated Chinese travellers in Singapore show limits of border reopenings as Covid-19 rages on | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3098988/frustrated-chinese-travellers-singapore-show-limits

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After two years in Singapore’s food and beverage industry, Chen – not his real name – said he was ready to return to his home country, but the new negative test result prerequisite for travelling was making him anxious.
Singapore, with more than 56,000 cases though the bulk of patients have recovered, generally offers tests only to those showing symptoms. Late on Wednesday, it announced it would make tests available between Friday and next Monday to travellers to China, to align with the new requirements.
Chen is not alone. As countries around the region ease open their borders in a bid to revive the ailing aviation industry, many would-be travellers have been left feeling confused and angry by what sometimes seem like daily rule changes by governments seeking to prevent imported infections that could trigger mass local outbreaks and force fresh lockdowns.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#singapour#asie#chine#travailleurmigrant#test#sante#testnegatif#frontiere

Ban on Air India flights to Hong Kong ignores imported coronavirus cases travelling to city via connecting flights, analysis shows | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3098502/coronavirus-ban-air-india-flights-hong-kong

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Despite recent government actions aimed at preventing Air India from carrying coronavirus-positive passengers into Hong Kong, a review by the Post has found that direct flights only account for part of the issue, with connecting flights from other locales also bringing in several cases from India. At least 44 cases imported from India have emerged since stricter public health restrictions were imposed on high-risk countries. Nineteen of the cases can be traced to a single August 14 flight operated by India’s national airline, triggering a two-week ban on Air India flights to the city by Hong Kong authorities. Five other cases were linked to an Air India flight from Delhi on August 11, and eight more were on another flight from Delhi a week before that.But a review of the official data also found another six Covid-19 cases imported from India could be traced to Singapore Airlines flight 890 on August 5. A further analysis of travel patterns found six more such cases travelled to Hong Kong via Singapore, Doha and Kuala Lumpur in late July and the first 19 days of August, indicating the problem is not limited to direct flights from India

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#inde#hongkong#singapour#casimporte#liaisonaerienne#sante#restrictionsanitaire#circulation

Organizing amidst Covid-19

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Miguel Martinez
Mutating mobilisations during the pandemic crisis in Spain (movement report, pp. 15 – 21)

Laurence Cox
Forms of social movement in the crisis: a view from Ireland (movement report, pp. 22 – 33)

Lesley Wood
We’re not all in this together (movement report, pp. 34 – 38)

Angela Chukunzira
Organising under curfew: perspectives from Kenya (movement report, pp. 39 – 42)

Federico Venturini
Social movements’ powerlessness at the time of covid-19: a personal account (movement report, pp. 43 – 46)

Sobhi Mohanty
From communal violence to lockdown hunger: emergency responses by civil society networks in Delhi, India (movement report, pp. 47 – 52)
Feminist and LGBTQ+ activism

Hongwei Bao
“Anti-domestic violence little vaccine”: a Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19 (movement report, pp. 53 – 63)

Ayaz Ahmed Siddiqui
Aurat march, a threat to mainstream tribalism in Pakistan (movement report, pp. 64 – 71)

Lynn Ng Yu Ling
What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for PinkDot Singapore? (movement report, pp. 72 – 81)

María José Ventura Alfaro
Feminist solidarity networks have multiplied since the COVID-19 outbreak in Mexico (movement report, pp. 82 – 87)

Ben Trott
Queer Berlin and the Covid-19 crisis: a politics of contact and ethics of care (movement report, pp. 88 – 108)
Reproductive struggles

Non Una Di Meno Roma
Life beyond the pandemic (movement report, pp. 109 – 114)
Labour organising

Ben Duke
The effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the gig economy and zero hour contracts (movement report, pp. 115 – 120)

Louisa Acciari
Domestic workers’ struggles in times of pandemic crisis (movement report, pp. 121 – 127)

Arianna Tassinari, Riccardo Emilia Chesta and Lorenzo Cini
Labour conflicts over health and safety in the Italian Covid19 crisis (movement report, pp. 128 – 138)

T Sharkawi and N Ali
Acts of whistleblowing: the case of collective claim making by healthcare workers in Egypt (movement report, pp. 139 – 163)

Mallige Sirimane and Nisha Thapliyal
Migrant labourers, Covid19 and working-class struggle in the time of pandemic: a report from Karnataka, India (movement report, pp. 164 – 181)
Migrant and refugee struggles

Johanna May Black, Sutapa Chattopadhyay and Riley Chisholm
Solidarity in times of social distancing: migrants, mutual aid, and COVID-19 (movement report, pp. 182 – 193)

Anitta Kynsilehto
Doing migrant solidarity at the time of Covid-19 (movement report, pp. 194 – 198)

Susan Thieme and Eda Elif Tibet
New political upheavals and women alliances in solidarity beyond “lock down” in Switzerland at times of a global pandemic (movement report, pp. 199 – 207)

Chiara Milan
Refugee solidarity along the Western Balkans route: new challenges and a change of strategy in times of COVID-19 (movement report, pp. 208 – 212)

Marco Perolini
Abolish all camps in times of corona: the struggle against shared accommodation for refugees* in Berlin (movement report, pp. 213 – 224)
Ecological activism

Clara Thompson
#FightEveryCrisis: Re-framing the climate movement in times of a pandemic (movement report, pp. 225 – 231)

Susan Paulson
Degrowth and feminisms ally to forge care-full paths beyond pandemic (movement report, pp. 232 – 246)

Peterson Derolus [FR]
Coronavirus, mouvements sociaux populaires anti-exploitation minier en Haïti (movement report, pp. 247 – 249)

Silpa Satheesh
The pandemic does not stop the pollution in River Periyar (movement report, pp. 250 – 257)

Ashish Kothari
Corona can’t save the planet, but we can, if we listen to ordinary people (movement report, pp. 258 – 265)
Food sovereignty organising

Dagmar Diesner
Self-governance food system before and during the Covid-crisis on the example of CampiAperti, Bologna (movement report, pp. 266 – 273)

URGENCI
Community Supported Agriculture is a safe and resilient alternative to industrial agriculture in the time of Covid-19 (movement report, pp. 274 – 279)

Jenny Gkougki
Corona-crisis affects small Greek farmers who counterstrike with a nationwide social media campaign to unite producers and consumers on local level! (movement report, pp. 280 – 283)

John Foran
Eco Vista in the quintuple crisis (movement report, pp. 284 – 291)
Solidarity and mutual aid

Michael Zeller
Karlsruhe’s “giving fences”: mobilisation for the needy in times of COVID-19 (movement report, pp. 292 – 303)

Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
Organising a solidarity kitchen: reflections from Cooperation Birmingham (movement report, pp. 304 – 309)

Clinton Nichols
On lockdown and locked out of the prison classroom: the prospects of post-secondary education for incarcerated persons during pandemic (movement report, pp. 310 – 316)

Micha Fiedlschuster and Leon Rosa Reichle
Solidarity forever? Performing mutual aid in Leipzig, Germany (movement report, pp. 317 – 325)
Artistic and digital resistance

Kerman Calvo and Ester Bejarano
Music, solidarities and balconies in Spain (movement report, pp. 326 – 332)

Neto Holanda and Valesca Lima [PT]
Movimentos e ações político-culturais do Brasil em tempos de pandemia do Covid-19 (movement report, pp. 333 – 338)

Margherita Massarenti
How Covid-19 led to a #Rentstrike and what it can teach us about online organizing (movement report, pp. 339 – 346)

Dounya
Knowledge is power: virtual forms of everyday resistance and grassroots broadcasting in Iran (movement report, pp. 347 – 354)
Imagining a new world

Donatella della Porta
How progressive social movements can save democracy in pandemic times (movement report, pp. 355 – 358)

Jackie Smith
Responding to coronavirus pandemic: human rights movement-building to transform global capitalism (movement report, pp. 359 – 366)

Yariv Mohar
Human rights amid Covid-19: from struggle to orchestration of tradeoffs (movement report, pp. 367 – 370)

Julien Landry, Ann Marie Smith, Patience Agwenjang, Patricia Blankson Akakpo, Jagat Basnet, Bhumiraj Chapagain, Aklilu Gebremichael, Barbara Maigari and Namadi Saka,
Social justice snapshots: governance adaptations, innovations and practitioner learning in a time of COVID-19 (movement report, pp. 371 – 382)

Roger Spear, Gulcin Erdi, Marla A. Parker and Maria Anastasia
Innovations in citizen response to crises: volunteerism and social mobilization during COVID-19 (movement report, pp. 383 – 391)

Breno Bringel
Covid-19 and the new global chaos (movement report, pp. 392 – 399)

▻https://www.interfacejournal.net/interface-volume-12-issue-1

#mouvements_sociaux #résistance #covid-19 #confinement #revue #aide_mutuelle #Espagne #résistance #Irlande #Kenya #impuissance #sentiment_d'impuissance #faim #violence #Delhi #Inde #féminisme #Wuhan #Pakistan #PinkDot #LGBT #Singapour #solidarité_féministe #solidarité #Mexique #care #Berlin #Allemagne #queer #gig_economy #travail #travail_domestique #travailleurs_domestiques #Italie #Egypte #travailleurs_étrangers #Karnataka #distanciation_sociale #migrations #Suisse #route_des_Balkans #Balkans #réfugiés #camps_de_réfugiés #FightEveryCrisis #climat #changement_climatique #décroissance #Haïti #extractivisme #pollution #River_Periyar #Periyar #souveraineté_alimentaire #nourriture #alimentation #CampiAperti #Bologne #agriculture #Grèce #Karlsruhe #Cooperation_Birmingham #UK #Angleterre #Leipzig #musique #Brésil #Rentstrike #Iran #droits_humains #justice_sociale #innovation #innovation_sociale

ping @isskein @karine4

SINGAPORE Coronavirus: uncertain future for 1.7 million foreigners in Singapore
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#singapour#chomage

▻http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Coronavirus:-uncertain-future-for-1.7-million-foreigners-in-Singapore-50337

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Due to the crisis, many expats have lost their jobs or had to accept wage cuts. The city-state risks losing 200,000 jobs, 60 per cent of which will affect foreign workers. Unemployment benefits and income subsidies are only for Singaporean citizens and permanent residents. Without work, low-income migrants cannot pay the debts they incurred with their recruiting agencies.

#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #expatries #singapour “Le Covid-19 m’a révélé l’autre visage de Singapour”
►https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/magazine/singapore-coronavirus.html

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Singapore coronavirus clusters awaken Asia to migrants’ plight - Nikkei Asian Review
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Japon#Singapour#travailleurmigrant#cluster
▻https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Singapore-coronavirus-clusters-awaken-Asia-to-migrants-plight

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▻https://m.lecourrier.vn/plus-de-340-vietnamiens-rapatries-de-singapour/779388.html
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Vietnamien#Singapour#rapatriement

Plus de 340 Vietnamiens ont été rapatriés de Singapour le 31 mai. Ils comprenaient des enfants moins de 18 ans, des personnes âgées, des malades, des travailleurs dont le contrat de travail est expiré, des touristes bloqués en raison du COVID-19...

’Burials are cheaper than deportations’: migrant workers and COVID-19 | Red Flag
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#sante#foyer#Golfe

▻https://redflag.org.au/node/7215

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The catastrophic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are hitting some people harder than others. Migrant workers, economically precarious and living in appalling conditions with few legal rights, are particularly vulnerable to the medical dangers and financial hardships sweeping the globe.

How to address 3 distress factors for Singapore’s migrant workers - TODAYonline
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#chomage#pauvreté

▻https://www.todayonline.com/commentary/covid-19-how-address-3-distress-factors-singapores-migrant-workers

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As Singapore braces for its worst ever recession, we can expect a surge in the number of migrant workers who will lose their jobs, some with months of unpaid salary as struggling employers go bust.

Singapore poised for risky pandemic polls - Asia Times
▻https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/singapore-poised-for-risky-pandemic-polls

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Some believe polls should not be held until a consistent pattern of single-digit or zero daily infections is established. The total number of infections in Singapore is now 37,183. Hundreds of new dormitory infections continue to be reported daily, while cases among the wider community are often in single digits.The Straits Times newspaper published a report on March 30 citing Heng’s remarks and estimates by political analysts which suggested that polling day could fall on July 11, following the dissolution of parliament on June 24 and a nine-day campaign period beginning July 1.Critics and some observers see no compelling reason to hold early elections and cite risks to public health if polls go-ahead in the coming weeks. Others suggest that an early snap poll would mitigate near-term uncertainties and risks, and could potentially be safer than end-of-term polls in a scenario where the pandemic worsens.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#élection#santé-publique#infection#dortoirs#travailleurs-migrants#santé

Singapore plans wearable virus-tracing device for all - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-singapore-tech-idUSKBN23C0FO

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore plans to give a wearable device that will identify people who had interacted with carriers of coronavirus to each of its 5.7 million residents, in what could become one of the most comprehensive contact-tracing efforts globally.

Testing of the small devices, which can be worn on the end of a lanyard or carried in a handbag, follows limited take-up of an earlier smartphone-based system and has further fuelled privacy concerns about contact tracing technology.

The tiny city-state, with one of the highest COVID-19 caseloads in Asia, is one of many countries trying to use technology to allow them to safely reopen their economies.

Singapore will soon roll out the device, which does not depend on a smartphone, and “may then distribute it to everyone in Singapore,” Vivian Balakrishnan, the minister in charge of the city-state’s smart nation initiative, said on Friday.

The government did not specify whether carrying the device would be mandatory.

The government’s earlier TraceTogether app encountered problems, especially on Apple (AAPL.O) devices where its operating system suspends Bluetooth scanning when the app runs in the background. Balakrishnan said repeated discussions with Apple failed to resolve the problem.

Mais ici, c’est la France, éternelle et disruptive, on est les meilleurs ! Comme a dit Cédric O, « Ce que montrent les études scientifiques c’est que dès les premiers téléchargements, #StopCovid évite des contaminations. »

#tracing #Singapour

Singapore moves to address cramped migrant worker conditions | ASEAN Today
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#foyer

▻https://www.aseantoday.com/2020/06/singapore-moves-to-address-cramped-migrant-worker-conditions

The Singapore government is planning to reduce crowding and trying to improve conditions for migrant workers, as COVID-19 cases in worker dormitories now account for over 90% of infections in the country.

Southeast Asia faces backlash for migrant clampdown - UCA News
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#AsieduSudEst#Thailande#Malaisie#Singapour#refugie#sanspapier#diffusion#centrederetention

▻https://www.ucanews.com/news/southeast-asia-faces-backlash-for-migrant-clampdown/88240

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UN warns that forcing migrants into hiding risks spreading Covid-19 in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

Allow migrant workers facing unemployment to change jobs, NGO says | Coconuts Singapore
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#travail#droit

▻https://coconuts.co/singapore/news/allow-migrant-workers-facing-unemployment-to-change-jobs-ngo-says-home

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Migrant worker rights advocates have suggested that restrictions on changing jobs should be relaxed so workers can switch employers more easily due to job insecurity.

Singapore, China agree on ‘fast lane’ arrangement for essential travel from early June | South China Morning Post

Business and official travel will initially be allowed between Singapore and Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
It will gradually be expanded to include additional areas, and Covid-19 prevention and control measures will remain in place
Singapore’s Changi Airport. The city state and China have agreed to allow essential business and official travel from early June. Photo: HandoutSingapore’s Changi Airport. The city state and China have agreed to allow essential business and official travel from early June. Photo: Handout
Singapore’s Changi Airport. The city state and China have agreed to allow essential business and official travel from early June. Photo: Handout
Singapore
and mainland China
have agreed to allow essential travel for business and official purposes between the two countries in early June, according to a joint statement.
The Fast Lane arrangement will be first applied between Singapore and six Chinese provinces or municipalities directly under the central government, and will gradually expand to include additional areas. Covid-19
prevention and control measures will remain in place.

The initial agreement applies to travel between Singapore and Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Chine#Singapour#voyage#tourisme
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3086799/singapore-china-agree-fast-lane-arrangement-essential

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COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: non-citizens have a right to protection too | openDemocracy
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#protection#droit

▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/pandemic-border/covid-19-southeast-asia-non-citizens-have-right-protection-too

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Arbitrary differentiation between citizen and non-citizen is causing migrants to suffer the worst of the pandemic.

Singapore’s guarded reopening risks viral revival - Asia Times
▻https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/singapores-guarded-reopening-risks-viral-revival

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Coronavirus infections in Singapore have sharply risen since April with clusters at foreign worker dormitories accounting for more than 90% of total cases. Hundreds of new dormitory infections continue to be reported daily, while cases among citizens and permanent residents in the wider community are often in single digits.The low rate of transmission outside the worker dormitories has paved the way for Singapore to ease its restrictive “circuit breaker” measures introduced in early April. But the formal expiry of the partial lockdown won’t entail a return to business as usual as the wealthy city-state intends to reopen its economy over several months.

#covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#dortoirs#travailleurs-migrants#infections#confinement#mesures-sanitaires#santé#transmission#réouverture

About 88000 to automatically benefit from Self-Employed Person Income Relief Scheme
▻https://www.mom.gov.sg/newsroom/press-releases/2020/0327-about-88000-to-automatically-benefit-from-self-employed-person-income-r

The Ministry of Manpower will introduce a Self-Employed Person (SEP) Income Relief Scheme (SIRS) to support eligible SEPs with less means, and tide them over this period of economic uncertainty.

2 Under the scheme, eligible SEPs will receive three quarterly cash payouts of $3,000 each in May, July and October 2020.

À Singapour, continuité de revenu pour les travailleurs indépendant·es : 3000 S$ par trimestre, c’est en pouvoir d’achat singapourien l’équivalent de 3000 € et le dispositif est prévu pour durer neuf mois. Classe.
#revenu_garanti (assurer la continuité de revenu en cas de crise, plutôt #assurance_revenu) #Singapour

Thailand’s unsung Covid-19 success story - Asia Times
▻https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/thailands-unsung-covid-19-success-story

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The Disproportionate Effect of COVID-19 on Migrant Workers in ASEAN – The Diplomat
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Thailande#Singapour#VietNam#politique_migratoire

▻https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/the-disproportionate-effect-of-covid-19-on-migrant-workers-in-asean

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Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam approached the intertwined issues of COVID-19 and migrant workers quite differently.

A Sudden Coronavirus Surge Brought Out Singapore’s Dark Side - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/magazine/singapore-coronavirus.html

The Infectious Diseases Act, instituted in 1976 and repeatedly updated with the emergence of new diseases such as H.I.V. and SARS, grants the state far-ranging powers to enter private premises, force people to immunize their children and, most crucial, criminalize acts detrimental to community health. From the earliest cases of the novel coronavirus, the government made it clear that lack of cooperation with health officials would be treated as a crime. Ordinary, errant Singaporeans have been showily prosecuted, photographed outside the court, their misdeeds blasted on the news as a warning. A man who had been quarantined upon returning from a trip to Myanmar, then ventured to a food court for pork-rib stew, got six weeks in jail. A shopper who cursed in a supermarket argument over face masks could get a prison sentence. A Singapore citizen who traveled to Indonesia in violation of his stay-at-home notice had his passport suspended.
But despite all the threats, through collective complacency or failure of imagination, the government was blindsided by a vulnerability it might have easily anticipated. In April, a dramatic surge of infections among poorly paid foreign workers crushed Singapore’s sense of invulnerability. The city is built and maintained by an army of laborers who come from other Asian countries — Bangladesh, India, China. They can be lodged as many as 20 men to a single room; one toilet is legally considered enough for 15 people. Last year, some of the dormitories suffered a measles outbreak. Migrant-worker housing has been connected with illness ever since the British colonial rulers called tuberculosis “a disease of the town-dwelling Chinese” because it raged among the “lowly paid migrants living en masse in congested and insanitary dwellings in the municipal area,” Loh and Hsu write. In other words, the notion that packed worker lodgings could weaken public health was neither new nor surprising.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#travailleurs-migrants#étrangers#santé#santé-publique#Bangladesh#Inde#chine

Coronavirus: Singapore imposes strict measures on migrant workers as it looks to resume some construction in June | South China Morning Post
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Singapour#travail#confinement

▻https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3084661/coronavirus-singapore-imposes-strict-measures-migrant

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Only those who have recovered from the virus or tested negative will be allowed to return to work – and they must adhere to new guidelines
Employers will need to assign them to specific work zones and stagger break times to ensure they cannot mingle