Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, 133 McKoy St, Wodonga, VIC, 3690, Australia.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 May;301:114948. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114948. Epub 2022 Mar 26.
Serious workplace injuries and fatalities amongst migrant workers are an increasingly documented concern in critical literature on precarious migrant labour. Explanations vary as to why migrant workers experience a disproportionally high incidence of workplace accidents, with existing literature identifying risk factors such as dangerous and demanding working conditions and lack of adherence to safety standards, as well as socio-cultural and political barriers negatively affecting migrants' health-seeking behaviour. This paper aims to extend these discussions through a closer examination of the role of two inter-related factors emanating from the political economy of Singapore's migrant labour regime in creating a context of heightened vulnerability and risk. These are: the organisation of migration (including fees/debts and deportability), and contract fraud and deceptive recruitment (including wrongful deployment and substandard living conditions). To frame discussion in the paper, I introduce the concept of the 'produced injured', which refers to those whose vulnerability to injury results from processes related to the political economy of migrant labour.
在关于不稳定移民劳工的批判性文献中，越来越多的记录表明移民工人中存在严重的工作场所伤害和死亡。至于为什么移民工人遭受工作场所事故的比例过高，解释各不相同，现有文献确定了一些风险因素，例如危险和苛刻的工作条件以及不遵守安全标准，以及对移民寻求医疗服务行为产生负面影响的社会文化和政治障碍。本文旨在通过更仔细地研究新加坡移民劳工制度的政治经济产生的两个相互关联的因素在造成脆弱性和风险增加的背景下，来扩展这些讨论。这两个因素是：移民组织（包括费用/债务和可驱逐性），以及合同欺诈和欺骗性招聘（包括错误部署和生活条件差）。为了在本文中进行讨论，我引入了“制造的受伤者”这一概念，它是指那些由于与移民劳工政治经济相关的过程而容易受伤的人。
