Indonesia

Sukamdi,

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“…Thirdly, central to the investigations in this book, a remarkably high proportion of migrant labour is now women's labour. Around eighty per cent of Indonesia's international labour migrants, for example, are women (Sukamdi 2008); a similar percentage among Burmese workers in factories in Thailand is reported in various studies (Pearson/Kusakabe 2012: 78). Yet this feature is still relatively little considered in policy discourse and even in much research on migration.…”

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21 ‘Women in Motion’ in a World of Nation-States, Market Forces, and Gender Power Relations

Gasper

Trương

2013

Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace

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This chapter provides concluding reflections from a set of nineteen case studies of transnational and intranational migration and mobility. It contrasts the 'sedentary bias' present in policy regimes and associated thought centred on nation-states, where movement is seen as exceptional, including normatively exceptional, with the centrality of movement in the processes of socioeconomic change and evolution, particularly those promoted under capitalist systems of economic organization. While market capitalist and nation-state principles of organization differ, they combine in hybrid systems, such as those currently being elaborated in policy regimes for temporary migrant workers, to exploit migrant labour. Many of these arrangements mirror the indentured labour regimes of earlier eras. The chapter presents by contrast a perspective based on principles of human rights and human security that uses a global framework both for understanding and for evaluation and then adds an explicit gender-aware enrichment of that perspective, in order to do justice to the special vulnerabilities and exploitation of women's migrant labour. A human security perspective, in particular, helps to base concern for human rights in an awareness of bodily and emotional needs, of global interconnections, and of the intersecting circumstances in people's everyday lives; but it requires, and lends itself to, gender-enrichment through partnership with insights from feminist theory, as illustrated in the book's various case studies. The systems of the nation-state, market capitalism, and gender power that are discussed in this chapter, that structure the experiences of migrant women workers, are very deeply established. The chapter suggests directions for possible recognition , to reduce and counter the invisibility and misframing of migration, and of women and their work; it also suggests priority areas for research and networking following the format employed for the book: linking researchers, policy practitioners and migrant advocates, South-South-North.

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Section: Themessupporting

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21 ‘Women in Motion’ in a World of Nation-States, Market Forces, and Gender Power Relations

Gasper

Trương

2013

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“…A recent migrant is defined in the Census as an individual whose province of residence at the time of the census was different to his or her province of residence five years prior to the census. Hugo (1997) provided a critical assessment of the Census‐derived data on internal migration in Indonesia—which to this day continues to be the main source of data on population mobility in the country (see Muhidin, 2014; Sukamdi, 2008). 8…”

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Internal migration, group size, and ethnic endogamy in Indonesia

Utomo

McDonald

2020

Geographical Research

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Much of the literature on assortative mating has centred on the social contexts of immigrant‐receiving countries in the West. This article examines ethnic assortative mating (endogamy) against rising volumes and intensity of migration within a multi‐ethnic lower middle‐income country. We used full enumeration data from the 2010 Indonesian Population Census to create a national dataset of husband–wife pairs (n = 47.8 million couples), and five subsets of married couples from provinces with the highest proportion of lifetime migrants: Riau, Riau Islands, Jakarta, East Kalimantan, and West Papua (n = 4.05 million). First, we examined the association between migration, group size, and endogamy at the provincial level. We found a negative association between internal migrant stock and endogamy across 33 provinces in Indonesia. Using endogamy as a proxy of the strength of ethnic boundaries, we have shown that accounting for group size at the provincial level changes the overall ranking of endogamy among ethnic groups. Second, drawing on the subsets of couples in the five provinces with the highest proportion of migrants in their population, we used multivariate analysis to examine how migration status correlates with the likelihood of endogamy at the individual level. Controlling for sex, group size, age, education, and religion, we found that the relationship between an individual's migration status and endogamy varies across the five provinces, reflecting the different nature and history of migration, and the ethno‐religious composition in these regions.

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“…Indonesia started labour exports in the 1970s and by mid-2006, there were 2.7 million Indonesians working overseas with official permission, representing 2.8% of the total national workforce ( Hugo, 2007 ). Almost 700,000 Indonesians were deployed overseas in 2007 ( Sukamdi, 2008, p. 326 ). In fact, it is believed that Indonesia could surpass the Philippines to become the largest labour-sending country in Asia if undocumented flows, especially migration to Malaysia, are accounted for in the statistics ( Wickramasekera, 2002, p. 13 ).…”

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Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family

2012

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Indonesia

Cited by 9 publications

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21 ‘Women in Motion’ in a World of Nation-States, Market Forces, and Gender Power Relations

21 ‘Women in Motion’ in a World of Nation-States, Market Forces, and Gender Power Relations

Internal migration, group size, and ethnic endogamy in Indonesia

Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family

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