Dreamwork (VI)

VI. Citations

Written by Ada Cheong
Dated 18 Dec 2025

Primary Works Cited

Call and Response: A Migrant / Local Poetry Anthology. Eds. Joshua Ip, Rolinda Onates Española, and Zakir Hossain Khokan. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2018. 

Call and Response 2: A Singapore Migrant Anthology. Eds. Joshua Ip, Zakir Hossain Khokan, Bhing Navato, and Poh Yong Han. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2021

Española, Rolinda Onates. No Cinderella?: Poems of a Filipina Domestic Worker in Singapore. Singapore: World Image Pte Ltd, 2020.

Esposo, Shy Lhen. Dreams Are My Reality. Pozorrubio: independently published, 2019.

Journey By Lorry. Org. Ripon Chowdhury, Md Sharif Uddin and Kethlyn Gayatiri. Singapore: independently published, 2023.

Md Sharif Uddin. “Little India Riot: Velu and a History.” Written Country. Ed. Gwee Li Sui. Singapore: Landmark Books, 2016.

---. Stranger to Myself: Diary of a Bangladeshi in Singapore. Ed. Theophilus Kwek. Landmark Books, 2017.

---. Stranger to My World: The COVID Diary of a Bangladeshi Migrant Worker. Ed. Gwee Li Sui. Landmark Books, 2021.

Md Mukul Hossine. Me, Migrant. Transcreated by Cyril Wong, translated by Fariha Imran and RFarouk Ahammed. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2016.

---. Braving Life. Transcreated by Cyril Wong, translated by Swagata Sen Pillai. Singapore: HealthServe, 2017.

Migrant Tales. Translated by Debabrota Basu. Dhaka: Babui Prokashoni, 2017.

Omar Faruque Shipon. Migrant Life: Stories of Reverist. Dhaka: Babui Prokashoni, 2020.

Songs From a Distance. Ed. Vanessa Lim. Singapore: Potato Productions Pte Ltd, 2017.

Zakir Hossain Khokan. “First Draft.” Southeast Asia Globe, 11 May 2020. Web. 15 Nov 2025.

---. “Please do not call us your brothers.” Facebook, Amrakajona Zakir, 16 Oct 2021. Web. 15 Nov 2025.

Secondary Works Cited

Ang, Ann and Angelia Mui-Cheng Poon. “English-Language Literature of Singapore.” The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes, ed. Andrew J Moody. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2024.

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Balakrishnan, Vivian. “Opening Remarks at the 9th Meeting of Honorary Consuls-General, 13 February 2023.” Singapore: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2023.

BBC. “The Bengali Language Movement.” BBC Witness History, 13 Dec 2021. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

Bloch, Ernst. The Principle of Hope, trans. Neville Plaice et al. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1986.

Calhoun, C. and Derluguian, G. Business As Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown. New York: NYU Press, 2011.

Cardenas, Miranda. Personal interview on Zoom. Conducted by Ada Cheong, 4 Dec 2025.

Chan, Chun Sing. “Speech by Minister Chan Chun Sing at 20th Forum of Young Global Leaders Summit.” Singapore: Ministry of Education, 2024.

Chowdhury, Afsan. “Why February 1952 Was a Literary Trigger Too.” Dhaka Courier, 1 Dec 2023. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

Chua, Dave. “The Disappearance of Lisa Zhang.” Fish Eats Lion, ed. Jason Erik Lundberg. Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2012.

Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism. Winchester: O Books, 2009. 

---. The Weird And The Eerie. London: Repeater Books, 2016.

George, Cherian. Air-Condition Nation Revisited. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2020.

Goh, Daniel P. S. “The Little India Riot and the Spatiality of Migrant Labor in Singapore.” Society & Space, 8 Sep 2014. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

Greener, Joe. “Moralising racial regimes: surveillance and control after Singapore’s ‘Little India riots’.” Race & Class vol. 64 (1), 2022. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

Gwee, Li Sui. “Md Sharif Uddin’s Stranger to Myself.” Gweek Culture, 1 Nov 2017. Web. 15 Nov 2025.

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Haq, Kaiser. “‘For your sake, O Freedom’: 1971 and Bangladeshi Poetry.” The Daily Star, 26 Mar 2023. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

HOME. “Policed Bodies: The Surveillance and Control of Migrant Domestic Workers’ Appearance.” Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics, 25 June 2025. Web. 15 Nov 2025.

---. Risky Rides: A Report on the Transportation of Migrant Workers. Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics, Mar 2025. Web. 1 Dec 2025.

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Kwek, Theophilus. “Love, Labour, and Loss: Decoding the ‘Migrant Worker’.” Student Policy Review, Harvard Kennedy School, 20 Feb 2019. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

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Mahbub, Rifat. “Poverty, Migration and Literature from below: Bangladeshi Labour Migrants’ Literary Expressions in Singapore.” The Journal of Law, Social Justice & Global Development vol. 26 (2021). Web. 14 Nov 2025.

McNally, David. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. BRILL, 2011.

Mendoza, Sherwin. “Singapore’s Migrant Worker Poetry, Worker Resistance, and International Solidarity.” The Asia-Pacific Journal vol. 17, issue 14, no. 3 (15 July 2019). Web. 14 Nov 2025.

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NAC. “Poems on the MRT: Bringing local poetry to your daily commute.” National Arts Council, 2025. Web. 1 Dec 2025.

Neo, Xiaobin. “Lorry Stories”. The Straits Times, 2 Oct 2022.

Nur Amali Ibrahim. Border Care: Migrant Labor in the Asian City of Good, forthcoming.

Peh, Marilyn. “He Wields the Pen to Move Mountains for Singapore’s Migrant Workers.” The Pride, 16 Nov 2016. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

Poh, Yong Han. “Can the Migrant Speak?: Migrant Worker Poetry and the Art of Advocacy in Singapore.” Student Policy Review, Harvard Kennedy School, 11 Feb 2019. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

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Yeh, Ray, and Goh Chiew Tong. “His Double Life as a Construction Worker and a ‘Famous Poet’ in Singapore – and the Price He Paid.” CNA, 18 Aug 2019. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

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Zhang, Luka Lei. Modes-of-Production of Working-Class Literature from Asia. Singapore: NTU, 2021.

---. “Filipina Domestic Workers as Contemporary Working-Class Poets.” Kritika Kultura vol. 45, 2024. Web. 14 Nov 2025.

---. “Migrant Worker Writings in Asia Today.” The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature. Routledge, 2024.

---. “‘They Are Afraid to Write’: Bangladeshi Migrant Worker Writers in Singapore”. South Asian Review, 2024. Web. 14 Nov 2025.