I draw on the key tenets of the culture-centered approach to co-construct the everyday negotiations of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) among low-wage male Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore. The culture-centered approach foregrounds voices infrastructures at the margins as the basis for theorizing health. Based on 87 hours of participant observations of digital spaces and 47 in-depth interviews, I attend to the exploitative conditions of migrant work that constitute the COVID-19 outbreak in the dormitories housing low-wage migrant workers. These exploitative conditions are intertwined with authoritarian techniques of repression deployed by the state that criminalize worker collectivization and erase worker voices. The principle of academic–worker–activist solidarity offers a register for alternative imaginaries of health that intervene directly in Singapore’s extreme neoliberalism.

我借鉴了以文化为中心的方法的主要原则，以共同构建新加坡低薪男性孟加拉移民工人中的COVID-19（2019年冠状病毒病）的日常谈判。以文化为中心的方法将边缘基础设施的声音作为理论健康的基础。基于参与者对数字空间的87个小时观察和47次深度访谈，我研究了移民工作的剥削条件，这些剥削条件构成了COVID-19疫情在低工资移民工人所在的宿舍中的爆发。这些剥削条件与国家部署的威权主义压制技术交织在一起，该技术将工人集体化定为刑事犯罪并抹去工人的声音。