Transient workers in the Chinese-dominant city-state of Singapore make up an invisibilized underclass of low-paid manual laborers. Numbering some 540,100 in 2019, they make up more than 10 percent of Singapore’s total population, while mostly working and living twenty-four hours per day in the private family homes of their employers. In these residences, most workers continue their labor in separation from each other, performing housekeeping or caregiving duties in a relatively quiet and invisible way. On the internet, however, this invisibility becomes quickly unveiled through the ability of such communities—in the case of this study, Indonesian female workers—to regroup in their spare, liminal moments and stake their identities and spaces online while riding on the fast connections provided in their workplaces.

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