Myanmar workers along Stamford Road on a wet Sunday
Partly due to intensive outreach efforts, the number of Burmese migrant workers coming to TWC2 for help has increased considerably over the last two years. They now tie with Tamil workers as the second-largest nationality group seeking assistance from us. Nearly all the Burmese workers we help are non-domestic workers, in the construction, service and manufacturing industries.
However, because this is a relatively new phenomenon, TWC2 does not have, as yet, much background knowledge of their broader circumstances, e.g. livelihood situations, and the backgrounds to how they are recruited. We’re therefore glad that Jovan, an undergraduate student at Nanyang Technological University, is embarking on research into one aspect of Myanmar migrants’ lives in Singapore: placemaking.
He produced a simple poster mapping our his project plans and his preliminary findings:
