The produced injured: Locating workplace accidents amongst precarious migrant workmen in Singapore

Sallie Yea

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 301, issue C

Abstract: Serious workplace injuries and fatalities amongst migrant workers are an increasingly documented concern in critical literature on precarious migrant labour. Explanations vary as to why migrant workers experience a disproportionally high incidence of workplace accidents, with existing literature identifying risk factors such as dangerous and demanding working conditions and lack of adherence to safety standards, as well as socio-cultural and political barriers negatively affecting migrants' health-seeking behaviour. This paper aims to extend these discussions through a closer examination of the role of two inter-related factors emanating from the political economy of Singapore's migrant labour regime in creating a context of heightened vulnerability and risk. These are: the organisation of migration (including fees/debts and deportability), and contract fraud and deceptive recruitment (including wrongful deployment and substandard living conditions). To frame discussion in the paper, I introduce the concept of the ‘produced injured’, which refers to those whose vulnerability to injury results from processes related to the political economy of migrant labour.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114948

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