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Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore - Making Future Citizens (Hardcover)
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Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore - Making Future Citizens (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
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Total price: R4,460
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This book examines the relationship between population policies and
individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using
the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness
of population policy is a function of competing notions of
citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy
incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects.
Drawing on a substantial number of personal interviews and focus
groups, the book analyzes the developmental welfare state's
overarching emphasis of citizen responsibility, and examines
population policies that reinforce social inequalities and ignore
cultural diversity. These factors combine to undermine elaborate
state policy efforts in encouraging citizens' biological
reproduction. The book goes on to argue that in order to facilitate
positive fertility decisions, the state needs to modify the
"economic production at all cost" approach and pay much more
attention to the importance of social rights. This suggests that
the Singapore government might profitably approach the phenomenon
of very low fertility with major initiatives similar to those of
other advanced industrialized societies. This book offers a
significant contribution to the literature on social policy, East
Asian and Southeast Asian studies.
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