Population policy and reproduction in Singapore : making future citizens / / Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun

• Autore: Sun Shirley Hsiao-Li
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.9095957
• Soggetto topico: Family policy - Singapore; Fertility, Human - Singapore
• Soggetto geografico: Singapore Population policy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 countriesLow 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 policiesClass 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 ; Lived citizenship and citizens' vision: beyond productivism and toward citizenship-social rightsMaking 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low fertility contexts. It demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of globalization processes, competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects. Drawing on a number of personal interviews and focus groups, the book analyses the developmental welfare state's overarching emphasis of citizen-responsibility, coupled with population policies that reinforce social inequalities and ignore social diversities, and undermine elaborate state policy efforts in encouraging citizens' biological reproduction. It goes on to discuss that in order to facilitate positive fertility decisions, the state needs to modify the economic production-at-all cost approach and pay much more attention to the increasing importance of citizen-social rights. This suggests that the Singapore government might profitably approach the phenomenon of very low fertility with major initiatives similar to those of other advanced industrialized societies."--Publisher's description.
• Titolo autorizzato: Population policy and reproduction in Singapore
• ISBN: 1-136-50781-7; 1-283-52089-3; 9786613833341; 0-203-14618-2; 1-136-50782-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790480903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series