Cross-border Mobility
Title
Cross-border Mobility
Subtitle
Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia
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€ 136,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789463729017
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
266
Language
English
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
Discipline
Asian Studies
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List of Images and Tables Acknowledgements Chapter One: Women, Mobility and Malayness at the Border Chapter Two: Sambas as Place, Culture, Identity Chapter Three: Traversing the Territorial Border for Work Chapter Four: Public Sector Women Challenging the Borders of Marginality Chapter Five: NGO Women Contesting the Borders of Marginality Chapter Six: Creating a Translocal Malay Borderscope Chapter Seven: Mobility and the Reconstitution of Gender Chapter Eight: Conclusion Glossary of Selected Foreign Words Appendix 1 References Index

Wendy Mee

Cross-border Mobility

Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia

Cross-border Mobility: Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocultural category ‘Malay’. In so doing, it raises new research questions that are relevant to the study of Indonesian women’s socioeconomic mobility more generally. Based on fieldwork in Sambas, a region of Indonesia bordering Malaysia, this study documents the ethnocultural consequences of the highly mobile working lives of Sambas Malay women. Emphasising the significance of territorial borders in women’s working lives, this study highlights how 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, nonterritorial borders that need 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 and create diverse outcomes for the ethnocultural category 'Sambas Malay'.
Author

Wendy Mee

Wendy Mee is Senior Lecturer and Sociology Program Convenor at La Trobe University, Melbourne.