Desiring ‘foreign talent’: lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore
Desiring ‘foreign talent’: lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore
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渴望“外国人才”：新加坡反移民情绪的缺乏和拉康
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2017
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通讯作者：
Peidong Yang
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作者：
Peidong Yang
摘要近年来，新加坡政府的亲移民政策--特别是其对所谓外国人才的招聘--在这个城市国家的本地人中引起了明显的反移民情绪和话语。本文从拉冈精神分析学的角度，对新加坡对外来人才的渴求和当地社会对外来人才的接受进行了一次具有启发性的阅读。这篇文章的重点是沮丧的新加坡人似乎发现外国人才移民，特别是来自中国大陆的人才，缺乏和不受欢迎的方式。拉康的理论可以大胆地解释：（1）外来人才不是为了填补空缺，而是为了创造空缺;（2）外来人才代表了新加坡和新加坡人无法获得的欲望对象，这最终意味着他们所面临的象征秩序中的差距和不一致。离开现有的概念框架和理论方法，本文说明了什么是精神分析的愿望透镜可以有助于移民和流动性研究。
ABSTRACT In recent years, the Singapore government’s pro-immigration policy – specifically, its recruitment of so-called foreign talent – has caused a palpable rise in anti-immigrant sentiments and discourses amongst natives of the city-state. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, a perspective so far marginal in migration research, this article offers a provocative reading of Singapore’s desire for foreign talent and the local society’s reception of these subjects. The article focuses on the ways in which frustrated Singaporeans seem to find foreign talent immigrants, especially those from mainland China, to be lacking and undesirable. Lacan’s theories enable the bold interpretations that: (1) foreign talent is not meant to fill a lack but precisely to produce it and (2) foreign talent stands for Singapore’s and Singaporeans’ unobtainable object of desire, which ultimately signifies the gaps and inconsistencies in the symbolic order confronting them. Moving away from existing conceptual frameworks and theoretical approaches, the article illustrates what a psychoanalytic lens of desire can contribute to migration and mobility research.
公共存在与情感：对前工业社区创伤的探索
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1.8
作者：
Walkerdine V
通讯作者：
Walkerdine V