Empowerment of female return migrant initiatives in Indonesia

Madrah, Muna Yastuti; Raharjo, Wahyu Arif; Azlan, Ummu Syafiqah; Budianto, Firman; Heller, Arokkiaraj; Indrianto, Antonius Maria

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“…The Research Center for Development and Information of BNP2TKI (2020) noted that, for three consecutive years, from 2016 to 2018, the placement of Indonesian migrant workers increased every year. From 234,451 in 2016From 234,451 in , 262,899 in 2017From 234,451 in , to 283,640 in 2018 The policy of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) abroad is one of the government's efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty rates in Indonesia (Primawati, 2011;Madrah et al, 2020;Wijaya et al, 2020;Kadir, 2019;Lasim et al, 2021). The consideration of becoming migrant workers is taken due to inadequate employment opportunities in the country of origin, family's economic pressure, and dreams of having valuables such as motorbikes, cars, rice fields, and good houses, among others.…”

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The Social Construction of Family Roles in Migrant Worker Income Management to Build Family Economy

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This paper aims to explain the social construction of family roles in migrant workers’ income management. Many migrant worker families are unable to manage their income correctly. This social construction would affect the community by giving negative stigma to the families of migrant workers. This research was conducted using a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The subjects were selected based on proportional sampling, namely people who live close to the families of migrant workers, extended families of migrant workers, and community leaders. The results of this study indicate that, in reality, some couples of migrant worker families can manage their income well, resulting in the income of migrant workers that does not have a meaningful impact on the family. The findings of this study contribute to developing a theory of social construction, where reality is the result of personal understanding, which is used as a shared understanding in the community. This shared understanding gives a new stigma to the reality of migrant worker families. The research limitation is that the data used are only obtained from subject interview data and case observations in the field, so the research findings limitedly describe the study of social construction in general. Future research that can be conducted based on this finding is investigating the effect of poor income management on the increasing migrant workers’ family disharmony.

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