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Cross-Border Mobility : Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Mobilities in Asia SerPublication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9048544939
  • 9789048544936
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cross-Border Mobility : Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia.DDC classification:
  • 305.4209598 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1752
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Images and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Women, Mobility, and Malayness at the Border -- 2. Sambas as Place, Culture, and Identity -- 3. Traversing the Territorial Border for Work -- 4. Public Sector Women Challenging the Borders of Marginality -- 5. NGO Women Contesting the Borders of Marginality -- 6. Creating a Translocal Malay Borderscope -- 7. Mobility and the Reconstitution of Gender -- 8. Conclusion -- Glossary of Selected Foreign Words -- Appendix 1 -- References -- Index
Summary: This book offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocultural category Malay. In so doing, it raises new research questions relevant to the study of Indonesian women's socioeconomic mobility more generally. Based on fieldwork in Sambas, a border region of Indonesia, the book documents the ethnocultural consequences of Sambas Malay women's highly mobile working lives. The book also extends our appreciation of the significance of territorial borders in women's working lives. In this study, women's border location not only facilitates cross-border pathways of international labour migration and trade, but also generates feelings of peripherality that inform women's imaginative construction of other, non-territorial borders to be crossed. Shaped by social class, gender, and the economic and cultural possibilities of political decentralization, the study identifies three borderscopes that orient women's work-related mobility in different directions and bring with them diverse outcomes for the ethnocultural category 'Sambas Malay'.
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Print version record.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Images and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Women, Mobility, and Malayness at the Border -- 2. Sambas as Place, Culture, and Identity -- 3. Traversing the Territorial Border for Work -- 4. Public Sector Women Challenging the Borders of Marginality -- 5. NGO Women Contesting the Borders of Marginality -- 6. Creating a Translocal Malay Borderscope -- 7. Mobility and the Reconstitution of Gender -- 8. Conclusion -- Glossary of Selected Foreign Words -- Appendix 1 -- References -- Index

This book offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocultural category Malay. In so doing, it raises new research questions relevant to the study of Indonesian women's socioeconomic mobility more generally. Based on fieldwork in Sambas, a border region of Indonesia, the book documents the ethnocultural consequences of Sambas Malay women's highly mobile working lives. The book also extends our appreciation of the significance of territorial borders in women's working lives. In this study, women's border location not only facilitates cross-border pathways of international labour migration and trade, but also generates feelings of peripherality that inform women's imaginative construction of other, non-territorial borders to be crossed. Shaped by social class, gender, and the economic and cultural possibilities of political decentralization, the study identifies three borderscopes that orient women's work-related mobility in different directions and bring with them diverse outcomes for the ethnocultural category 'Sambas Malay'.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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