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36 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 625 (2010-2011)
Diversity, Rights, and Rigidity in Singapore

handle is hein.journals/ncjint36 and id is 631 raw text is: Diversity, Rights, and Rigidity in Singapore Meredith L. Weiss t I. The Pressures of Prosperity ................ ..... 626 II. Gender & Sexuality .................. ........ 630 A. Of Production and Reproduction ..............630 B. The Cost of Creativity ............... .........635 III. Foreign Talent and Foreign Labor ........ .........639 IV. An Uneasy Balance .................... ......644 Singapore is caught in a bind. The tiny city-state has ambition and resources to spare, but not enough Singaporeans. The state's efforts to boost its stock of human capital, whether through domestic reproduction or foreign imports, has aggravated fault lines-divisions of gender and sexuality, religion, class, and nation of origin-revealing tensions between the priorities of aggressive development and social cohesion. Nevertheless, the state still pursues both doggedly. We consider here the progress and prospects of that undertaking: how the Singapore state balances its own yen for control with the never-ending pressure to evolve to meet changing global economic realities, an increasingly diverse labor force and population, and rights claims spurred by new economic agendas. We begin with an overview of Singapore's dilemma, consider in turn the nexus of gender and class in the state's plans (and in resistance to these plans), the quest for the creative class and the adaptation thus required, and t Meredith L. Weiss is in the department of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Universities and Students in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow (Cornell SEAP/Singapore, in press) and Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia (Stanford, 2006), as well as numerous articles and book chapters; and coeditor of Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives (United Nations University, 2010) and Social Movements in Malaysia: From Moral Communities to NGOs (Routledge Curzon, 2003, 2004). Her research addresses political mobilization and contention, the politics of development, civil society, nationalism and ethnicity, and electoral change in maritime Southeast Asia. Weiss currently serves on the Southeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies and holds office in the New Political Science and Sexuality & Politics sections of the American Political Science Association.

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