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Cultural Mediation Through Vernacularization: Framing Rights Claims Through the Day-Off Campaign for Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
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This article is published in International Migration.The article was published on 2017-06-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Framing (social sciences) & Migrant domestic workers.read more
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Critical Health Communication Method as Embodied Practice of Resistance: Culturally Centering Structural Transformation through Struggle for Voice
Mohan J. Dutta,Asha Rathina Pandi,Dazzelyn Zapata,Raksha Mahtani,Ashwini Falnikar,Naomi Tan,Jagadish Thaker,Dyah Pitaloka,Uttaran Dutta,Pauline Luk,Kang Sun +10 more
TL;DR: The body of the academic as a methodological site decolonizes the capitalist framework of knowledge production through its voicing of an openly resistive politics that stands in defiance to the neoliberal structures that produce health inequities as mentioned in this paper.
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From contestation to convergence? A constructivist critique of the impact of UN Human Rights Treaty ratification on interpretations of Islam in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss UN human rights treaty ratification in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and argue that normative change can be observed in these cases, by focusing on changes in language and ideas, rather than on legal changes and implementation.
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Mobilities, Communication, and Asia| Precarities of Migrant Work in Singapore: Precarities of Migrant Work in Singapore: Migration, (Im)mobility, and Neoliberal Governmentality
Mohan J. Dutta,Satveer Kaur-Gill +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a dialectical relationship between mobility and materiality, and drawing on their collaborations with foreign domestic workers (FDWs) and migrant constructions workers (MCWs) in Singapore in cocreating communication infrastructures, they theorize resistance as mobilities in Asia.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins
TL;DR: In the early phases of the outbreak, mainstream frames were quick to highlight the gathering of low-skilled workers in open areas as sites to be surveilled, shaping the divisive practices of othering in early frames on migrant worker behaviors as discussed by the authors.
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Social Protection for Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore: International Conventions, the Law, and Civil Society Action:
TL;DR: Although migrant women from neighboring Southeast Asian countries fill crucial care gaps in Singapore households as live-in domestic workers, their social protection remains uneven, uncertain, and uncertain this article, and their safety protection remains uncertain.
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Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.
TL;DR: In this article, Frame alignment, of one variety or another, is a necessary condition for participation, whatever its nature or intensity, and that it is typically an interactional and ongoing accomplishment.
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Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle
TL;DR: The authors argue that anthropological analysis of translators helps to explain how human rights ideas and interventions circulate around the world and transform social life, and argue that translators can serve as knowledge brokers between culturally distinct social worlds, but are also vulnerable to manipulation and subversion by states and communities.
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Resonance and Radicalism: Feminist Framing in the Abortion Debates of the United States and Germany1
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of German and U.S. newspapers in the period 1970-94 shows how differences in discursive opportunity affect both the strategic use of frames in the feminist repertoire about legal abortion and their long-term success.
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Vernacularization on the ground: local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States
Peggy Levitt,Sally Engle Merry +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine how global ideas about women's rights actually get used in four contexts - China, India, Peru and the United States, and find that vernacularization is a widespread practice that takes different forms in different kinds of organizations and in different cultural and historical contexts.
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Spaces at the Margins: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Development of Civil Society in Singapore
Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Shirlena Huang +1 more
TL;DR: In the context of international labour migration in the Asia Pacific region, where migrant women are moving as paid reproductive labour in large numbers from less-developed countries to rapidly industrialising urban nodes in the region as discussed by the authors.