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Refugee

Letters to the Editor Refugee 

LETTER: Asylum Policies Must Consider Risk of Exploitation

October 15, 2017October 24, 2018

In response to our recent piece by Theophilus Kwek proposing what asylum policies in Singapore could look like, a reader argues that the experiences of migrant workers and long-term immigrants form a cautionary tale to be considered before we naively implement asylum policies for refugees.

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ASEAN Immigration Op-Ed Refugee 

Safer Waters: An Asylum Policy for Singapore?

October 8, 2017October 24, 2018

Yet again, a refugee crisis in Southeast Asia has concerned the world. In Singapore, however, the Government’s usual rejection of an asylum policy has hardly been questioned- unusual for a nation with thriving and critical online discourse of issues. Theophilus Kwek argues that other options are possible- and questions the assumptions that make us shy away from them.

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Op-Ed Refugee 

Does Singapore Have a Reason to Refuse Refugees?

May 21, 2015

BY JERRY LEWIS ONG The current migrant boat crisis in Southeast Asia involving Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority and poor Bangladeshis

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