The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outbreak Inequality: Mainstream Reporting of Singapore's Migrant Workers in the Margins

Singapore saw a majority of COVID-19 infections plaguing low-skilled migrant construction workers by late April 2020. In the initial 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 pr...

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Main Author: Satveer Kaur-Gill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00065/full