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dc.title | Migration and health in the construction industry: Culturally centering voices of Bangladeshi workers in Singapore | |
dc.contributor.author | Dutta, M.J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-17T06:36:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-17T06:36:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Dutta, M.J (2017). Migration and health in the construction industry: Culturally centering voices of Bangladeshi workers in Singapore. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14 (2) : 132. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14020132 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1661-7827 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/183551 | |
dc.description.abstract | Construction workers globally face disproportionate threats to health and wellbeing, constituted by the nature of the work they perform. The workplace fatalities and lost-time injuries experienced by construction workers are significantly greater than in other forms of work. This paper draws on the culture-centered approach (CCA) to dialogically articulate meanings of workplace risks and injuries, voiced by Bangladeshi migrant construction workers in Singapore. The narratives voiced by the participants suggest an ecological approach to workplace injuries in the construction industries, attending to food insecurity, lack of sleep, transportation, etc. as contextual features of work that shape the risks experienced at work. Moreover, participant voices point to the barriers in communication, lack of understanding, and experiences of incivility as features of work that constitute the ways in which they experience injury risks. The overarching discourses of productivity and efficiency constitute a broader climate of threats to worker safety and health. © 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. | |
dc.publisher | MDPI | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.source | Unpaywall 20201031 | |
dc.subject | construction industry | |
dc.subject | injury | |
dc.subject | labor migration | |
dc.subject | public health | |
dc.subject | safety | |
dc.subject | workplace | |
dc.subject | Article | |
dc.subject | Bangladeshi | |
dc.subject | building industry | |
dc.subject | comprehension | |
dc.subject | confusion (uncertainty) | |
dc.subject | construction worker | |
dc.subject | cultural factor | |
dc.subject | fatigue | |
dc.subject | food insecurity | |
dc.subject | help seeking behavior | |
dc.subject | human | |
dc.subject | insomnia | |
dc.subject | interpersonal communication | |
dc.subject | migrant worker | |
dc.subject | migration | |
dc.subject | occupational accident | |
dc.subject | occupational hazard | |
dc.subject | occupational health | |
dc.subject | occupational safety | |
dc.subject | productivity | |
dc.subject | Singapore | |
dc.subject | sleep deprivation | |
dc.subject | traffic and transport | |
dc.subject | workplace | |
dc.subject | Caucasian | |
dc.subject | health disparity | |
dc.subject | occupational accident | |
dc.subject | safety | |
dc.subject | statistics and numerical data | |
dc.subject | Singapore [Southeast Asia] | |
dc.subject | Accidents, Occupational | |
dc.subject | Construction Industry | |
dc.subject | European Continental Ancestry Group | |
dc.subject | Health Status Disparities | |
dc.subject | Humans | |
dc.subject | Occupational Health | |
dc.subject | Safety | |
dc.subject | Singapore | |
dc.subject | Transients and Migrants | |
dc.subject | Transportation | |
dc.subject | Workplace | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | DEPT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA | |
dc.description.doi | 10.3390/ijerph14020132 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | |
dc.description.volume | 14 | |
dc.description.issue | 2 | |
dc.description.page | 132 | |
dc.published.state | Published | |
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