The Working Committee 2's Research Papers
Transient Workers Count Too's forerunner was The Working Committee 2. In preparation for its launch in March 2003, five sub-groups of volunteer researchers were formed. Their role was to research some of the basic issues raised by the employment of foreign domestic workers in Singapore and then to present papers that would provide a foundation for The Working Committee 2 campaign in 2003.
These papers are now made available to all who might wish to read them. They have not been updated or re-written, so they reflect conditions at the time of their writing. Some things have changed: for example, the minimum age for women to come to work in Singapore is now 23, not 18, as it was in 2003; an improved standard contract has been drafted for use in the agency industry; new organizations that can be of assistance to domestic workers needing help have been established, including Transient Workers Count Too and the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME).
The researcher reading these papers may find material elsewhere on the TWC2 website of assistance for updating purposes.
TWC2 considers that this research remains very useful and informative and it is grateful to those who put in long hours and a great deal of effort into preparing them.
The papers are:
Unregulated business: How foreign domestic workers are recruited, trained and deployed in Singapore homes (47.17 KB) by Tan Hui Yee, Puvaneswari Sundaram, Liew Khai Khiun, with acknowledgements to Mandy Heng and Ng Wei Chian*
The researcher reading these papers may find material elsewhere on the TWC2 website of assistance for updating purposes.
TWC2 considers that this research remains very useful and informative and it is grateful to those who put in long hours and a great deal of effort into preparing them.
The papers are:
Group A : Foreign Domestic Workers Invisible Under the Law (50.08 KB) by Sucheta Misra and Elaine Ho, with acknowledgements to Chandra Mohan.
Unregulated business: How foreign domestic workers are recruited, trained and deployed in Singapore homes (47.17 KB) by Tan Hui Yee, Puvaneswari Sundaram, Liew Khai Khiun, with acknowledgements to Mandy Heng and Ng Wei Chian*
Group C: Support Systems for Foreign Domestic Workers (48.77 KB) by John Gee, with contributions from Sara Dean and Dana Lam
Group D: Reliance on Foreign Domestic Workers: Alternatives to the Problems (73.71 KB) by Elaine Ho and Wong Fang Ying
Group E: Understanding Domestic Worker Abuse in Singapore: The Cultural Aspects of Exploitation (12.29 KB) by Constance Singam, Kelly Fu and Christopher Len, with the assistance of Ng Wei Chian.