ABSTRACT
Long, a thirty-eight-year-old man, came to Singapore in 1997. He had been an engineer in China. Through friends who were working in Singapore, he learned of a job opening there and relocated. 1 A year later, his wife, Jian, joined him. Jian, a doctor with more than eight years of medical practice, was unable to recertify herself in Singapore; she gave up her medical practice and worked part-time in a Chinese language school. 2 Their son, Guang, arrived with Long’s parents, who had taken care of him since Jian’s departure, the following year. Guang attended a local primary school near their flat in the eastern part of the island. After school, Long’s retired parents looked after him.
