Writing and Research

A selection of my journalism, research and creative writing over the years

Early drafts, 2004

Journalism

  1. Pushed from national parks, forest-dwellers defend land and customs, with Sahnaz Melasandy, New Naratif, 2022

  2. Home-grown Southeast Asian stories rejected by Western media, Asian American Journalists Association, 2022

Research

  1. Satveer Kaur-Gill, Samira Hassan, and Yeo Qin-Liang, Extreme (im)mobility and mental health inequalities: Migrant construction workers in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic (Palgrave Macmillan), 2023

  2. Yeo Qin-Liang, Satveer Kaur-Gill, and Samira Hassan, Conducting digital ethnography with precarious migrant workers in a pandemic, in Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic (Palgrave Macmillan), 2023

  3. Fadhilah Primandari, Samira Hassan, and Sahnaz Melasandy, Envisioning media freedom and independence: Narratives from Southeast Asia, New Naratif, 2021. Also adapted into a comic summary, Media Work as Resistance, illustrated by Charis Loke

  4. Satveer Kaur-Gill, Yeo Qin-Liang, and Samira Hassan, Negotiating mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Performing migrant domestic work in contentious conditions, American Behavioral Scientist, 2021

  5. Samira Hassan and Yeo Qin-Liang, No apologies demanded: The political subcultures of low-waged migrant workers and foreign domestic workers in COVID-19, Journal of International and Public Affairs, 2020

Creative non-fiction

  1. Full of Small Mouths, SUSPECT, Singapore Unbound, 2026

  2. Marsh Memory, PR&TA: Practice, Research and Tangential Activities, 2025

Newsletter

Editor’s notes for notes from the equator, Kontinentalist’s monthly newsletter

  1. Our connected futures, notes from the equator #73, May 2026

  2. What rivers remind us of, notes from the equator #66, August 2025

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