04155nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001600169072001700185072002300202072001500225072001600240100008100256245014000337250001800477264007900495300004300574336002600617337002600643338003600669347002400705490006900729505029600798520210501094650004803199650005103247650001003298650002803308650002203336650003203358710003403390773002603424776003603450776003603486776003603522830006903558856004603627978-3-031-77225-2DE-He21320251030114930.0cr nn 008mamaa250124s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317722527 a10.1007/978-3-031-77225-22doi 4aJV6225-6231 7aJHB2bicssc 7aJFFN2bicssc 7aSOC0260002bisacsh 7aJHB2thema 7aJBFH2thema1 aTan, Rebecca Grace.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aGrassroots Integration in Multicultural Singaporeh[electronic resource] :b(Re)Constructing One United People /cby Rebecca Grace Tan.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aVII, 214 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series,x2947-61190 a1. Who Belongs to the Nation? -- 2. A Singaporean Story of Migration -- 3. Piecemeal Integration -- 4. Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- 5. Good Neighbours make Good Singaporeans -- 6. Good Multiculturalists make Good Singaporeans -- 7. We the Citizens – Concluding Thoughts on Belonging.  aThis book studies the role that grassroots volunteers play in the integration and naturalization process in Singapore. With increasing migration, the topics of migrant integration and belonging are of perennial academic and public interest. However, much of the existing literature on the subject is largely focused on European and North American cases. By focusing on the single case of Singapore, this project provides a story of how a city-state grapples with the issue of managing increasing cultural diversity while seeking to maintain a cohesive identity. As a city, Singapore has many ubiquitous features of other urban centres for migration, such as a rapidly diversifying population and an economy that is heavily reliant on foreign labour. At the same time, being a city-state means that the demographic and cultural changes experienced in Singapore also coincide with questions of national belonging and membership in the nation-state, in contrast to larger countries with rural-urban divides or more decentralized systems of migration management and integration. Examining this simultaneously typical yet unique case study means that this project is able to examine the processes where state and society have managed migration and cultural diversity at the level of the nation-state. For example, this project discusses how Singapore’s policy of multiracialism complements nation-building efforts, adding to existing public and academic debate about whether societies can concurrently embrace cultural difference yet maintain a cohesive national identity. Rebecca Grace Tan is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Political Science, Singapore, after receiving her PhD in Politics from the University of Bristol, UK. She is interested in the topics of multiculturalism, national identity, belonging and migration. As a scholar who primarily studies Singapore, she believes that the case study, while small, has much to contribute to studies of multiculturalism and nation-building in literature often dominated by work on North America and European cases. 0aEmigration and immigrationxSocial aspects. 0aEmigration and immigrationxGovernment policy. 0aRace.14aSociology of Migration.24aMigration Policy.24aRace and Ethnicity Studies.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303177224508iPrinted edition:z978303177226908iPrinted edition:z9783031772276 0aPalgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series,x2947-611940uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77225-2