October 17, 2025Urban ScienceOpen Access

Resilience Behind Barriers: Life, Labour, and Lockdown in Singapore’s Dormitories

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Qualitative analysis reveals migrant workers navigated confinement and surveillance, highlighting resilience amid control.

Workers combined strategies like transnational kinship and religious routines to maintain resilience.
Interviews revealed emotional regulation and agency under conditions marked by surveillance and overcrowding.
A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the lived experiences of South Asian male construction workers.
Findings challenge the idea of total institutional control, illustrating nuanced migrant narratives of endurance.

Ganapathy et al. (2025) studied this question.

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October 17, 2025Urban ScienceOpen Access

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Qualitative analysis reveals migrant workers navigated confinement and surveillance, highlighting resilience amid control.

Workers combined strategies like transnational kinship and religious routines to maintain resilience.
Interviews revealed emotional regulation and agency under conditions marked by surveillance and overcrowding.
A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the lived experiences of South Asian male construction workers.
Findings challenge the idea of total institutional control, illustrating nuanced migrant narratives of endurance.

Ganapathy et al. (2025) studied this question.

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