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Population policy and reproduction in Singapore : making future citizens /
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 seemi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.