Multicultural encounters in Singapore's nursing homes: a care ethics approach. Issue 5 (8th April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Huang, Shirlena; Yeoh, Brenda S.A.
• Is Part Of: Ethnic and racial studies. Volume 43:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 873
• Page End: 891
• Publication Date: 2020-04-08
• Subjects: Care ethics -- multiculturalism -- foreign care workers -- everyday geographies -- nursing homes -- Singapore; Race -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Ethnic groups -- Periodicals; 305.805
• DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1687924
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0141-9870

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper adopts a care ethics lens to examine multicultural encounters in the institutional care space of nursing homes in Singapore. We focus on the interactions between foreign and local care workers of different nationalities and ethnicities in their interactions as they work alongside one another to take care of elderly residents, as well as in the time they spend together after working hours. Drawing upon qualitative data, we seek to understand the practices and processes of how different groups "do" care in negotiating the boundaries of diversity that characterize their everyday encounters. Providing a perspective from Singapore contributes to a more plural understanding of multicultural care ethics from a location outside the western world.