社区治理的国际经验与启示

日本的社区建设采取行政与自治相结合的混合治理模式,新加坡的社区建设是政府主导的治理方式。两国社区治理的做法与经验对我国的社区建设具有重要启示意义：坚持存量盘活、增量添彩的基本原则,发挥政府的资源与政策优势,引入契约合作模式,优化社区治理结构,推广“三社互动”,创新社区党建,实现社会协同与公众参与。     

Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore

In 2019, the Misuse of Dugs Act, the main legislative instrument in combatting drug offences in Singapore, underwent a landmark amendment where it strove to strike a balance between subjecting persistent drug offenders to long-term imprisonment and enhancing the reintegration potential of those offenders whom the state considered as ‘pure abusers’ without a penal charge. While this risk-differentiated approach could be seen as progressive and moving away from the harsh response that has had traditionally characterised the Singapore state's treatment of persistent drug abusers, this article contends that extending the maximum period of drug supervision from two to 5 years, which the amendments called for, of even pure abusers upon their completion of the detention order, hinder efforts at desistance. This article focuses specifically on the contradictions of the urine testing regime post-release and seeks to contextualise its counter effects on the various dimensions of desistance among recovering drug abusers.     

Lighting,signing, showing: The circulability of Pink Dot's counterpublic discourse in Singapore

Pink Dot, a homegrown LGBTQ activist group based in Singapore, has been treated as a social movement since its inauguration in 2009, and they organise an annual event to advocate for LGBTQ individuals. In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the twelfth edition of the event (PD12) took place online as a livestream on YouTube. The highlight of PD12 was the unveiling of a ‘digital pink dot’ via a virtual map of Singapore, where the permeability of its discourse in virtual and physical spaces became much more apparent in comparison with previous physical iterations of the event. Approaching the data with counterpublic and citizenship theory, I outline the circulability of discourse as the key feature of a counterpublic, and argue that PD12 achieves this in two ways: (i) the semiotic fragmentation of its physical signs and online discourse; and (ii) the deployment of intertextual elements in a drag performance.     

产业升级与空间布局：新加坡工业发展的历程与经验

新加坡通过不断调整工业政策和适时进行产业升级,用40多年的时间走完了发达国家100多年的工业化进程,并首创以工业园区为主导的开发模式,从而成为众多发展中国家学习的标杆城市。本文梳理了新加坡在不同发展时期的产业政策和空间布局的演变历程,并总结新加坡工业发展的经验,以期为当前中国的产业升级和城市发展提供有益的参考。     

Identity Management among Indonesian and Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

This study examines how the identities of migrant domestic workers are likely to be endangered and how these individuals struggle to reconstitute them. It is largely based on an interview and observational study with Indonesian and Filipina domestic workers in Singapore. Inspired by the sociological discussion of Goffman and Ishikawa, the study reveals how each migrant domestic worker manages her identity in her specific social context. This study shows that domestic workers contrive tactics to negotiate their situations, given that domestic work is considered a low prestige occupation and workers tend to be divested of the usual “identity kit” to make up their identity front. Specifically, to compensate for their discredited status, domestic workers attempt to reconstitute their damaged identity, obtain a new identity kit, recall previous social and family roles, or anticipate a future identity. They also attempt to acquire new skills and increase their value, so they can identify themselves as more than “just a maid.” They obtain additional roles in an attempt to change how they feel about themselves, to alter the meaning of being a domestic worker, and to redefine their relationships with others either by individual struggles or through collective activities. This study also points out a possible pitfall of identity management among the actors. The mechanism of identity politics might lead to an erosion of value, alienation from other domestic workers, and a strengthening of conventional stereotypes and generalizations regarding ethnicity, nationality, and gender. In this context, how non‐governmental organizations play a role in mitigating the pitfalls of identity management among domestic workers is also examined.     

族群住房配额制：各民族互嵌式社区建设的新加坡实践与启示

作为一项公共政策，族群住房配额制主要被那些不仅将族群隔离居住视为贫困问题更视为一系列社会问题的国家所采用。新加坡作为少有的公开采用这一政策的国家，有其自身特殊的历史原因，其具体政策内容也主要基于新加坡具体国情而自成特色。尽管其政策效果颇有争议，中国的国情与新加坡也大不相同，但新加坡的实践也启示我国，在各民族互嵌式社区建设过程中，抓住当前城市化进程中大量保障房建设的重要契机，科学合理规划公共住房，以增量改革为策略，秉持多元一体理念，完善相关政策体系，形成政策合力，不失为明智之举。     

Fleeting joy,divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore

For Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore, visits home are highly anticipated and longed for, but only as long as they remain brief. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, this paper examines such visits as emotionally complex events that bring intense joy as migrants reunite with dispersed family members, but also reveal divergent expectations and feelings of loss and betrayal. These experiences are especially felt among migrant women given the gendered constructions of their migration journeys that demand strenuous relational work on their visits and far beyond. Visits home, nevertheless, are important moments through which migrant care workers re-orient their priorities and aspirations as migrants and as women over time, often leading to prolongations of their ‘temporary’ absences. The paper further examines how migrant care workers, many of whom are on temporary work contracts in Singapore, fear and anticipate the moment when short visits ultimately become permanent returns.     

Framing the Muslim subject,contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore

This paper explores how the (trans)nationalization of Islam can lead to differential understandings of the Muslim subject and secular citizen in Singapore. (Trans)nationalization problematizes the state-led regulation of religion by revealing the complexities that emerge when religious subject positions are indexed to citizenship status. Islamic expression is closely regulated in Singapore, meaning the Singaporean Muslim subject is framed by the state in secular-first terms. Complicating this framing is the presence of Bangladeshi migrant workers, who, by virtue of their visa and residency statuses, are viewed as transient members of society and denied access to citizenship. Non-citizenship causes a variety of Islamic expressions to become viable pathways to religious subject formation, including those associated with Islamic missionary movement, Tablighi Jamaat. By claiming these subject positions, Bangladeshi Tablighis become vectors through which Singapore's Muslim spaces are exposed to transnational Islamic influences, causing the mosque to be imbued with divergent, and sometimes contested, meanings and attributions of value.     

全面抗战初期新加坡侨报视野中的新四军——以《总汇新报》相关新闻报道为中心(1938—1939)

全面抗战初期，以《总汇新报》为代表的新加坡华媒刊发了大量有关新四军的新闻报道，既有对战略战术、光辉战绩、革命精神等方面的宏观分析，又不乏在微观视角下对新四军日常训练、战斗经过、军民关系等方面的观察记录，呈现出一个坚决抗日、政治过硬的先锋劲旅，战术高明、训练有素的威武之师以及作风优良、军民团结的爱国军队形象，从而引发南洋侨界的情感共鸣与广泛支持，同时也见证了中国共产党在抗日战争中的中流砥柱作用。