The Two Singapores: From the Worker’s View

This article is part of the series: The Two Singapores: Migrant Labor Precarity in Covid-19

“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases among migrant workers living in cramped dormitories. The series aims to shed a light on Singapore’s reliance on cheap migrant labor in maintaining its image as a glitzy, cosmopolitan city-state, and aims to offer …

Lectures

August 17, 2020

What the experience of Covid-19 tells us about disability, work, and accessibility

By Bernardo Oliveira, Daniela Navarini and Valéria Aydos

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

The ‘new normality’ in the world of work:

Bernardo, one of the authors of this piece, has Larsen’s Syndrome, a rare genetic disease. Because of this, he has difficulty traveling long distances and needs accommodations. He says that on the first day of work on January 2020, in an effort to find the classroom where he would teach courses on …

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The Two Singapores: From the Worker’s View

What the experience of Covid-19 tells us about disability, work, and accessibility