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Time For Singapore To Relook Abortion Law, Seow Hon Tan
Time For Singapore To Relook Abortion Law, Seow Hon Tan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
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Time For Singapore To Relook Abortion Law, Seow Hon Tan
Time For Singapore To Relook Abortion Law, Seow Hon Tan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
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A Union Of Gender Equality And Pragmatic Patriarchy: International Marriages And Citizenship Laws In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan
A Union Of Gender Equality And Pragmatic Patriarchy: International Marriages And Citizenship Laws In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
As a patriarchal society, government policies, societal norms and government regulations in Singapore mirror that normative ideal. Citizenship status and rights along gender lines, manifested in the legal recognition of children of international marriages, reflected this reality for much of Singapore's independence. However, the onslaught of globalization, the rise in international marriages, disconcerting declining birth rates, and an acceptance of 'foreign talent' have given the economic imperative and demographic impulse to grant citizenship (by descent) to a person born outside Singapore whose father or mother is a citizen of Singapore, by birth, registration or descent. Previously, such a person would …