Writing and Research
A selection of my journalism, research and creative writing over the years
Early drafts, 2004
Journalism
Pushed from national parks, forest-dwellers defend land and customs, with Sahnaz Melasandy, New Naratif, 2022
Home-grown Southeast Asian stories rejected by Western media, Asian American Journalists Association, 2022
Research
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
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
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
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
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
Full of Small Mouths, SUSPECT, Singapore Unbound, 2026
Marsh Memory, PR&TA: Practice, Research and Tangential Activities, 2025
Newsletter
Editor’s notes for notes from the equator, Kontinentalist’s monthly newsletter
Our connected futures, notes from the equator #73, May 2026
What rivers remind us of, notes from the equator #66, August 2025