Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore.
This research paper investigates how Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs) from the Philippines use space to represent and express their identities as members of a diaspora who maintain ties transnationally with their homeland. It studies the process of place-making by looking at how FDWs form communities...
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| author | Tan, Dilys Yi Fang. |
| author2 | Caroline Pluss |
| author_facet | Caroline Pluss Tan, Dilys Yi Fang. |
| author_sort | Tan, Dilys Yi Fang. |
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| description | This research paper investigates how Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs) from the Philippines use space to represent and express their identities as members of a diaspora who maintain ties transnationally with their homeland. It studies the process of place-making by looking at how FDWs form communities and name, interpret and transform the place to a temporary home. The migrant sites chosen for analysis are Lucky Plaza, Botanic Gardens, the area behind ISS International School and the pathway beside Tong building. The first part of the research focuses on the spatial dimension, demonstrating how public space is perceived and appropriated by FDWs to form a “home away from home”. The second part looks into the idea of networks using the “place lens”, paying attention to studying how the networks of family, friends and nation interrelate and intertwine within these spaces, and to discuss the effects of these networks on shaping the identities of FDWs in Singapore. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/352662019-12-10T12:43:08Z Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. Tan, Dilys Yi Fang. Caroline Pluss School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences This research paper investigates how Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs) from the Philippines use space to represent and express their identities as members of a diaspora who maintain ties transnationally with their homeland. It studies the process of place-making by looking at how FDWs form communities and name, interpret and transform the place to a temporary home. The migrant sites chosen for analysis are Lucky Plaza, Botanic Gardens, the area behind ISS International School and the pathway beside Tong building. The first part of the research focuses on the spatial dimension, demonstrating how public space is perceived and appropriated by FDWs to form a “home away from home”. The second part looks into the idea of networks using the “place lens”, paying attention to studying how the networks of family, friends and nation interrelate and intertwine within these spaces, and to discuss the effects of these networks on shaping the identities of FDWs in Singapore. Bachelor of Arts 2010-04-15T03:57:33Z 2010-04-15T03:57:33Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35266 en Nanyang Technological University 35 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Tan, Dilys Yi Fang. Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. |
| title | Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. |
| title_full | Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. |
| title_fullStr | Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. |
| title_short | Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore. |
| title_sort | using place lens the construction of diasporic identity and a home away from home by foreign domestic workers in singapore |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35266 |
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