Migration and Development: A case study of Indonesian migrant workers

Abstract

This article aims to investigate how poor people in developing countries gain benefit from globalization by examining the opportunity to work as migrant worker. To respond the research gap, this study adopts a case study approach with a fieldwork survey in East Java Indonesia. The result indicates that diaspora strategy is almost impossible for the poor if he or she notices a high possibility for the employer to cheat those who work in domestic jobs, like nanny, driver, or baby sitter. Unless protection from both house and home countries is available, the diaspora strategy is not a better option for the migrant-work applicant. The paper contributes to the scholarly interest in the diaspora strategy to interrogate the assumption underlying the Migration-as-Development (MAD) discourse.On the supply side, the labor market environment in destination countries is main determinant of migration, such as labor institutions bring impact on expected employment and wages in the labor market, thus influencing incentives for migrants to move in a particular country [8]. The need to promote diaspora strategy springs from the economic disparities between the home country and the envisaged 1st Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2018)

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