Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore: experiences, understandings and responses.
In this paper, I explore precarity as experienced by international students studying in the honours college of a public university in the city–state of Singapore. Precarity for this group emanates from the intersection of their temporary migrant status, the country's changing immigration and economi...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 47; no. 20; pp. 4741 - 4758 |
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