Culture in the Global Urban Margins: Cultural Policymaking with Migrant Workers in Doha and Singapore
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the evolving role of cultural policy in the urban integration of migrants. It compares Doha and Singapore, cities with large populations of transient, low-wage labor migrants lacking permanent status. The study, based on fieldwork and interviews conducted from 2018 to 2022, analyzes cultural actions that have been deployed towards these populations in recent years, ranging from the building of specific cultural infrastructures, like movie theaters showcasing Bollywood films, to the organization of photography festivals and poetry contests. This study identifies three distinct policy approaches: one perpetuating exclusion, another reinforcing the prevailing diversity management regime, and a third aiming to reframe the migrant discourse and advocate for transformative change. The chapter puts the spotlight on the ’cultural city-makers’ who are at the forefront of such cultural policies, often migrants themselves, with a status that oscillates between different forms of precarity and privilege. I explore the dilemma that they face as they realize these cultural initiatives with these marginalized migrants, such as the risk of legitimizing unjust and exploitative policies, and the personal risks that their attempts to challenge dominant narratives could generate for themselves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".