| Summary: | This chapter illuminates the ways in which the Singapore state’s approach
toward public goods, despite its recent heavy rhetoric around ‘social inclusion’
and some moves toward expansion, maintains a limited sense of mutual
obligations among citizens and instead institutionalizes individualism and
differentiated deservedness. This is a welfare regime in which access to public
housing, healthcare, childcare, and retirement security continues to depend upon
specific constellations of individualized practices. Indeed, performing ‘the family’
in specific gendered and heteronormative ways is crucial to ensuring social
security in Singapore.
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