Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415670685
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9781136507823
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Content:
This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives and the perceive
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: making future citizens -- The central theoretical framework: citizenship -- Citizenship as a lived experience -- The developmental and productivist welfare state in Asia -- Two demographic transitions -- Population, state and citizenship in Singapore -- Book outline -- 2 Low fertility and pronatalist population policies -- Global trends in fertility behavior -- The economic approach and financial incentives -- The institutional-cultural approach and work-family-balance policies -- The impact of pronatalist policies on fertility in Asian countries -- Low fertility and pronatalist incentives in Singapore -- This study: methodological considerations -- 3 Economic development, social investments, and population control -- Singapore: "from Third World to first" -- The People's Action Party -- Institutionalizing citizen-responsibility through compulsory savings -- Human resources development as the engine of economic growth -- Population control and economic development -- Molding productive citizens -- 4 Class-differentiated pronatalism -- The predominant context of childbearing decision making -- Communication and knowledge of government policies -- Class differentiation in existing economic incentives -- Summary -- 5 Privileging the citizen-worker -- Diversity in individual aspirations -- Differential perceptions of paid maternity leave -- Varying responses toward paid paternity leave -- Women's and men's perceptions of childcare leave -- Summary -- 6 Constructing children's multi-dimensional qualities -- Quantity-quality of children -- Interpersonal competence and individual competitiveness -- Negotiating between two different perspectives -- Summary -- 7 Conclusion
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Lived citizenship and citizens' vision: beyond productivism and toward citizenship-social rights -- Making future citizens: lessons for pronatalist policy making -- Competing visions of the nation's future -- Pronatalist policies as a site for investigating citizenship -- Pronatalist policies as a type of public policy -- Appendix A: evolution of Singapore's pronatalist policies -- Appendix B: survey on marriage and having children in Singapore -- Appendix C: components of the central provident fund (CPF) system -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415670685
Language:
English
Keywords:
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