Managing Diversity in Singapore
Subtitle: Policies and Prospects
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781783269532
Subjects: Singapore, social conditions
Description: "Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies were designed to homogenise aspects of Singaporean society while enshrining principles to allow restricted amounts of diversity. Fast forward to the present, and fifty years after independence, the number of areas where diversity is profoundly apparent remains copious, and its manifestations more varied. This book provides an updated account on the tensions posed by diversity in Singapore and how this is being managed, primarily by the state through policies and programmes but also by communities who attempt to negotiate these tensions."--Back cover.