At the Migrant Workers’ Centre Recreation Club, some 20km west of Singapore’s central business district, the men who help keep the city-state running spend a weekday evening surrounded by a 2-metre-high fence.
Inside, across a sprawling concrete courtyard, vending machines dispense face masks and food stalls offer halal food to south Asian labourers who sip beers on plastic chairs.
More than two years after Singapore announced its first Covid-19 lockdown, spaces like this, one of eight so-called recreation centres located on the outer reaches of the island, are the only places thousands of workers are allowed to freely spend time outside their residence.
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