Singapore needs a plural lens to think about its migrant spaces, as the temporary guest worker is not a transient ‘bachelor body’ in a ‘bordered security scape’ (Ye 2013) (Loong 2018). The structured invisibility in terms is being layered by an active digital subaltern social media presence via tik tok, and that most workers are grateful rather than activistic, as the remittance feeds mouths back home. But Singapore is also their home, visa categories are not that important as they will head back to their families in Thanjavur or Kakinada or Panchkula. Citizenship is not their primary purpose, but belonging is a lived experience reality- the chai at Mustafa Cafe or biryani at Fakruddin is transnational belonging, and the dormitories are transnational too next to Johor as the North Coast Lodge. The peripheral centres are transnational if not global, and are an element of the global city, a free port such as Dubai since 1905. The empire made ports as spaces of mobility, as ‘migration infrastructure’ on a city scale.