The Future of Singapore: Population, Society and the Nature of the State (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Singapore’s population dilemma
	Introduction: the dismal science
		Essay on the Principle of Population
	Demographic strategies and low fertility
2. Singaporean demography from past to present: fertility and migration trends
	Beginnings: Singapore before independence
	Population patterns of the new state
	Singapore today
	The race for population: towards a continued \'racialized migration’
	Singapore’s Malay population dilemma: are Filipinos Malays?
	Emigration as a response to immigration
	Conclusion: Singapore’s Chineseness
	Notes
3. Singapore’s soft authoritarianism and population control
	Introduction
	Aristocracies and meritocracies
	Soft authoritarianism and Confucian culture in Singapore
	Legality and legitimacy
	The PAP and the Head Gardener
	MM Lee on family, marriage and migrants
	Conclusion: an end to political gardening?
4. Conscription, the Singaporean core and the question of loyalty
	Introduction
	The Singapore case: citizenship, manhood and belonging
	National Service and the question of loyalty: from CMIO to the ‘Singaporean core’
	Malays in the army
	New immigrants
	Common predicaments, uncommon routes
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. Population problems, family policies and the naturalization of differentiated deservedness
	Introduction: the problem of population and family
	Population and family as national problems: entrenching state interventions and producing differentiated deservedness
		The meanings of fertility: gender and class inflections
		Marriage, employment and public housing: institutionalizing pathways
to ideal families
		Support for narrow familial forms: solidifying the significance of gender and class
	Producing norms
		Marriage, housing, employment and the production of
differentiated deservedness
		Public problems with private solutions: individualist orientations in a
‘communitarian’ society
	Looking at citizenship through Foucauldian and feminist lenses
		Individualism without (individual) rights: on thinkable and
unthinkable alternatives
	Notes
6. Reproductive citizenship, governmentality and the theory of entitlement
	Introduction: reproductive citizenship
	Reproducing the nation
	Foucault and the governance of reproduction
	Pathways to citizenship
	NRTs and the social imperative of families
	Regulating artificial reproduction
	Conclusion: reproduction and governmentality
	Notes
7. Foreign talent and popular opposition to migration
	The xenophobia debate
	Space
	Integration and national identity
	Clash of culture
	Competition, diversity and loyalty
	Citizenship rights and diversity laws
	‘High net worth individuals’ as talent
	Conclusion
	Notes
8. Conclusion
	Introduction: successful societies
	Singaporean success?
References
Index