Bursting the Bubble: Spatialising Safety for Privileged Migrant Women in Singapore. Issue 2 (4th October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cranston, Sophie; Lloyd, Jenny
• Is Part Of: Antipode. Volume 51:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 478
• Page End: 496
• Publication Date: 2018-10-04
• Subjects: safety -- fear -- privilege -- migration; Geography -- Periodicals; 910.5
• DOI: 10.1111/anti.12433
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0066-4812

Abstract

Abstract: This paper develops geographical work that is attentive to, and critical of, how safety is lived and narrated. In contrast to previous work on safety that focuses on fear, the paper looks at safety as something more than aspiration for women. To do so, the paper utilises the metaphor of the "expatriate bubble" to explore how safety is constructed and experienced by privileged migrants in Singapore. Utilising research from two projects, we argue that we need to think about how gender and Othering intersect to construct safety. In doing so, we explore how we can use conceptualisations of privileged migrants to research how safety can be understood and therefore practised more widely.