Long way home The life history of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands

Kitamura, Yumi

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“…For Indonesians, migration can be recognized in waves, catalyzed by national crises, nation-state economic agendas, and the increased chance to study and work abroad. One of the prominent reasons for Indonesians to move abroad was to seek security, specifically during Cold War turmoil that resulted into the targeting of alleged communist party sympathizers during 1960s to 1970s, and 1998 riots when protests against the authoritarian president Soeharto erupted into violence against religious and ethnic minorities (Kitamura;Vickers, 2005;Widjanarko, 2007). In recent decades, Indonesians have also become increasingly mobile with the rise of global capitalism that causes demand for working professionals and the brokering of lowskilled labor and domestic workers by private entities.…”

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Understanding migration in a globalized era: How postcolonialism views diaspora

Saraswati

2021

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Artikel ini adalah sebuah pembacaan kritis terhadap pendekatan poskolonial, mulai dari pemikir utama dalam teori kritis hingga pemikiran yang lebih baru, yang selama ini membantu kajian sastra dan budaya dalam memahami konsep diaspora. Diaspora merujuk pada mobilitas manusia yang terjadi akibat penjajahan dan globalisasi serta karya sastra yang dihasilkan melalui pergerakan manusia tersebut. Tujuan artikel ini adalah untuk memahami perkembangan pendekatan poskolonial dalam memahami pengalaman hidup migran dan konsep diaspora. Metode yang diterapkan adalah analisis teks dengan menyajikan kajian literatur ekstensif mengenai studi pascakolonial. Artikel ini mengidentifikasi perspektif intelektual kajian pascakolonial dalam menggunakan istilah diaspora untuk mencermati bagaimana bidang studi ini meredefinisi istilah tersebut untuk mengkaji migrasi di era modern, yang dapat bersifat sukarela maupun tidak sukarela, serta permanen ataupun sementara. Artikel ini berargumen bahwa istilah diaspora terus-menerus mengalami kontestasi dan dijadikan relevan dengan konteks masa kini sehingga memberikan peluang bagi masyarakat Global South, termasuk Indonesia, untuk mencermati agensi mereka dalam pengalaman hidupnya sebagai migran dan warganegara dunia yang berpindah-pindah. This article is a critical reading on postcolonial scholarship, ranging from tenets in the field to more current theories, that has allowed literary and cultural studies scholars to understand the term diaspora. Diaspora refers to the various mobilities caused by colonization and globalization, and the literature produced through people’s movement across borders. This article aims to reflect on the development of postcolonial studies on how this field of study has come to address the migrant’s lived experience and conceptualize the term diaspora. The method applied by this article is literary analysis, as the paper provides an extensive literature review of scholarships in postcolonial studies. By doing so, the article identifies the ways in which postcolonialism has engaged with the term diaspora and is working to reconfigure the term to address modern era migration, that can be both voluntary and involuntary, as well as permanent and temporary. The article ruminates on how diaspora continues to be a contested term and is made relevant to current context, providing ways for communities of the Global South, including Indonesia, to seek agency in their experience as migrants and global mobile citizens.

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Understanding migration in a globalized era: How postcolonialism views diaspora

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“…The purpose of this paper is to trace the modern history of Indonesia through the experience of Chinese Indonesians who migrated to the Netherlands after World War II. The study of overseas Chinese tends to challenge the boundaries of the nation-state by exploring the ideas of transnational identities 1 Some parts of this article are based on the rewriting of a Japanese article: Kitamura, Yumi. 2014.…”

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Long way home The life history of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands

Kitamura¹

2017

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Strangers No More? The Case of Glory Presbyterian Church (GPC) Chinese-Indonesian Church in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Suleeman¹

2018

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Resumen Este artículo aborda las dinámicas que se desarrollan dentro de la congregación Glory Presbyterian Church (GPC) – una comunidad sino-indonesa en San Francisco, California, EEUU – en torno a las relaciones entre diversos grupos donde se ponen en juego diferencias culturales, teológicas y generacionales. Allí se evidencian las tensiones que emergen en relación a los procesos de inclusión/exclusión entre grupos sino-indonesios – que son parte de la iglesia – y otros colectivos que llegan a ese espacio eclesial. El artículo permite visualizar las tensiones y (re)apropiaciones que se dan sobre la construcción del sentido de «identidad», en un marco inscripto en tensiones socio-culturales, políticas y religiosas. Palabras clave: Identidad, racialización, Glory Presbyterian Church, iglesias étnicas.

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Long way home The life history of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands

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Understanding migration in a globalized era: How postcolonialism views diaspora

Understanding migration in a globalized era: How postcolonialism views diaspora

Long way home The life history of Chinese-Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands

Strangers No More? The Case of Glory Presbyterian Church (GPC) Chinese-Indonesian Church in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

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