Home And Away Indonesian Women And Their Unique Transnational Migration Experiences In Malaysia

Author : MASHITAH HAMIDI
Publisher : The University of Malaya Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789831009512

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HOME AND AWAY INDONESIAN WOMEN AND THEIR UNIQUE TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION EXPERIENCES IN MALAYSIA by MASHITAH HAMIDI Pdf

This book explores the migration processes and experiences of female labour migrants from Indonesia to Malaysia’s manufacturing sector. Their stories depict labour migration as a process shaped by the intersection of external, structural forces and individual desires and motivations. Labour migration was valued and evaluated as an “investment”, one that was calculated not only in terms of financial security but also in relation to personal rewards and experiences unavailable to them at home. These labour migrants negotiated a number of externally imposed demands and conditions, ranging from migration regulations, the challenges of settlement in a new city, factory floor relations, and the negative stereotypes attached to female Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. Such constraints did not simply result in their sense of victimisation, as the interviews revealed the women’s capacity to resist, negotiate and comply with such factors. The book distinguishes between two groups of migrants: inexperienced, first-time migrants and experienced repeat migrants.

Author : S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315443386

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India Migration Report 2016 by S. Irudaya Rajan Pdf

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both in India and in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries; explores gender issues in migration to Gulf countries; and brings together the latest field data on migrants across states in India. Part of the prestigious annual series, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, labour studies, and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers and government institutions working in the area.

Author : Anja Rudnick
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789056295608

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Working Gendered Boundaries by Anja Rudnick Pdf

This study explores the short term migration of Bangladeshi women to Malaysia to work in labour intensive, export oriented factories, and considers the consequences of their decision to migrate. While international migration is a much discussed issue, so far little attention has been given to the vast flow of South-to-South migration, which is particularly large in Asia. The labour migration flows within this region are typified by their highly regulated nature, temporary character and by the predominance of females undertaking migration. So far, most academic attention has focused on permanent or settlement migration. This study aims to fill a gap in our understanding of migration theory by focusing on temporary migration processes. The study examines the reasons Bangladeshi women gave for migrating and how their experience impacted their lives during their migration and after their return. The findings underscore the importance of incorporating gender in migration theory and integrating it into analyses. While in most cases their migration was socio-culturally contested, the women say they migrated in an effort to improve their socio-economic standing. This proved in general to be more difficult than anticipated; wages were not paid according to contract or labour law, and male peers often opposed their efforts. The complex nature of these women's position and situation preclude unequivocal conclusions as to the possible benefits or losses resulting from migration. But by revealing the experiences of individual women, this study helps to clarify some of the ambiguities of the individual migrants complex reality. The analysis of their experiences exposes important gender dynamics.

Author : Naoki Yoshihara
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1920901949

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Global Migration and Ethnic Communities by Naoki Yoshihara Pdf

This book is a collection of essays on the critical subject of migration in a global context. The book offers insights into the broad range of experiences of migrants in diverse settings. It also examines multi-layered local community issues that have emerged in the light of the increasing flow of people across the globe. The key question informing the arguments in the book has to do with the relationship between nationality and citizenship. Part I of the book looks at the situation of emigrant workers, discussing the opportunities and problems they face in their experiences overseas. Part II focuses on the transformation of ethnic communities, painting a picture of various forms of migrants based on the constellation of such factors as safe and secure town planning, redevelopment, and kou (rotating savings and credit associations). Finally, Part III addresses migrant education and language, and also discusses identity formation and generational succession of minority children who live in a multicultural symbiotic society. (Series: Stratification and Inequality - Vol. 14)

Author : Khong How Ling,K.S. Jomo
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789971694876

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Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services by Khong How Ling,K.S. Jomo Pdf

This is the first book to look at labor in Malaysian services, and also the first to use the labor market segmentation approach to study Malaysian labor. As in most other countries, the services sector has long accounted for more of the labor force than manufacturing in Malaysia. Studies of those working in services in developing countries have tended to focus on the public sector and, in recent decades, the informal sector. This study of workers in services also covers those in private enterprises, both modern (e.g. financial services) and traditional (e.g. transportation services). This study also looks more generally at Malaysian labor market segmentation, especially at ethnicity and gender. Of particular importance are the impact of structural change in the economy and the interaction between these processes and the labor market on job and pay opportunities.

Author : Jón Ingvar Kjaran,Mohammad Naeimi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031158094

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Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia by Jón Ingvar Kjaran,Mohammad Naeimi Pdf

This book examines queer activism and queer social movements (QSMs) in Indonesia and Malaysia, broadly engaging with these topics on three different levels: macro (global and national discourses), meso (organizational level – activities), and micro (individual – the activist). The micro level perspective allows for moving beyond the “traditional” political movement paradigm by understanding activism in Foucauldian terms as the ethics of the self (Foucault, 1984). In other words, the queer subject is seen as an active agent in taking care of the self by queering/resisting gender norms as well as heteronormative practices and regimes in their social environment through embodiment and actions. This kind of ethical being has the potential to build support and community between and amongst individuals.

Author : Johan A. Lindquist
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824832018

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The Anxieties of Mobility by Johan A. Lindquist Pdf

Since the late 1960s the Indonesian land of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment converges with inexpensive land and labour. The book moves beyond these dichotomies to explore the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam.

Author : Jamilah Ariffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : UCBK:C048563492

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Proceedings of the International Colloquium "Migration, Development, and Gender in the ASEAN Region" by Jamilah Ariffin Pdf

Author : Olivia Killias
Publisher : Gendering Asia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8776942260

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Follow the Maid by Olivia Killias Pdf

This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from a matrilocal village in upland Central Java, women who actively place themselves in a position to enter the migration pipeline, knowing that their lives abroad will be hard and even dangerous, and that staying in the village is an option. From recruitment by local brokers to the 'training' received in secluded camps in Jakarta, employment in gated middle-class homes within Indonesia and in Malaysia and back home again, Olivia Killias tracks the moral, social, economic and legal processes by which women are turned into 'maids'. The author's analysis uncovers the colonial genealogies of contemporary domestic worker migration and demonstrates that, ironically, the legalization of the migration industry does not automatically improve the situation of the women in its care.0Rather, Killias unmasks the gendered moralizing discourses on 'illegal' migration and 'trafficking' as legitimizing indentured labour and constraining migrant mobility. By exploring the workings of the Indonesian state's overseas legal labour migration regime for migrants, she brings the reader directly into the nerve-racking lives of migrant village women, and reveals the richness and ambiguity of their experiences, going beyond stereotypical representations of them as 'victims of trafficking'.

Author : Sally A. Lloyd,April L. Few,Katherine R. Allen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781412960823

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Handbook of Feminist Family Studies by Sally A. Lloyd,April L. Few,Katherine R. Allen Pdf

The Handbook of Feminist Family Studiespresents the important theories, methodologies, and practices in feminist family studies. The editors showcase feminist family scholarship, providing both a retrospective and a prospective overview of the field andcreating a scholarly forum for interpretation and dissemination of feminist work.

Author : Adrian Vickers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107019478

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A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers Pdf

This updated edition examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam in Indonesia and asks why the country's democratic aspirations have yet to be realized.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821396261

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Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Pdf

Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries.

Author : Thung, P.H.,Juniwaty, K.S.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870721

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Missing links in the forest–migration nexus by Thung, P.H.,Juniwaty, K.S. Pdf

This paper provides an overview of the current state of knowledge about migration and its relation to forests in Indonesia. An evaluation of current patterns and trends of migration finds that while mobility is increasing nationally and internati

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121648633

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Asian Profile by Anonim Pdf

Author : James F. Hollifield,Neil Foley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503629585

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Understanding Global Migration by James F. Hollifield,Neil Foley Pdf

Understanding Global Migration offers scholars a groundbreaking account of emerging migration states around the globe, especially in the Global South. Leading scholars of migration have collaborated to provide a birds-eye view of migration interdependence. Understanding Global Migration proposes a new typology of migration states, identifying multiple ideal types beyond the classical liberal type. Much of the world's migration has been to countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. The authors assembled here account for diverse histories of colonialism, development, and identity in shaping migration policy. This book provides a truly global look at the dilemmas of migration governance: Will migration be destabilizing, or will it lead to greater openness and human development? The answer depends on the capacity of states to manage migration, especially their willingness to respect the rights of the ever-growing portion of the world's population that is on the move.