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Auteur(s) : Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li
Titre(s) : Population policy and reproduction in Singapore [Texte imprimé] : making future citizens / Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun
Publication : London ; New York : Routledge, 2012
Description matérielle : xiv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 43
Lien à la collection : Routledge contemporary South Asia series
Comprend : Introduction : making future citizens ; Low fertility and pronatalist policies
; Economic development, social investments, and population control ; Class differentiated
pronatalism ; Privileging the citizen-worker ; Constructing children's multi-dimensional
qualities.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the relationship between population
policies and individual reproductive decisions in low fertility contexts. It demonstrates
that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of globalization processes,
competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives
and the perceived and experienced disparate effects. Drawing on a number of personal
interviews and focus groups, the book analyses the developmental welfare state's overarching
emphasis of citizen-responsibility, coupled with population policies that reinforce
social inequalities and ignore social diversities, and undermine elaborate state policy
efforts in encouraging citizens' biological reproduction. It goes on to discuss 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 increasing
importance of citizen-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."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Politique démographique -- Singapour
Politique familiale -- Singapour
Conditions économiques -- Singapour
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415670685 (hardback). - ISBN 0415670683 (hardback). - ISBN 9781138785205
(paperback). - ISBN 1138785202 (paperback). - ISBN 9780203146187 (ebook). - ISBN 0203146182
(ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43809043q
Notice n° :
FRBNF43809043
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