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Activism and aid: young citizens’ experiences of development and democracy in Timor-Leste
Published 2017-04-01Open AccessOther -
After Nunukan: The Regulation of Indonesian Migration to Malaysia
Published 2006-01-01Labour migration from Indonesia to Malaysia is a complex phenomenon. Migrants enter Malaysia via a range of formal, semi-formal and informal channels, primarily through Sumatra and Kalimantan. Although Indonesian authorities ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Asia’s Labor Migration and Employment Relations Regimes
Published 2019-01-01What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Beyond the Femina fantasy: female industrial and overseas domestic labour in Indonesian discourses of women's work
Published 2003-01-01In the late 1990s, scholarly attention turned to glossy publications such as Femina, the premier Indonesian women's magazine, for insights into what it means to be a woman in Indonesia. When Brenner analysed the visual and ...Open AccessArticle -
The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands
Published 2006-01-01The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address ...Open AccessArticle -
A Challenge for Business? Developments in Indonesian Trade Unionism after Soeharto
Published 2004-01-01This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begins by briefly outlining developments in unionism in New Order Indonesia and sketching changes in the regulatory environment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Chinese of Karimun: Citizenship and Belonging at Indonesia's Margins
Published 2013-01-01We argue that the localized expression of Chinese Indonesian identity in Karimun suggests a need to move beyond a focus on integration versus assimilation to an analysis of how identity and belonging are tied to a sense ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Contested Borders, Contested Boundaries: The Politics of Labour Migration in Southeast Asia
Published 2012-01-01This chapter examines the political economy of labour migration in the region, with a focus on its implications for collective action. It argues that the pivotal role of temporary labour migrants in Southeast Asiaposes ...Open AccessBook chapter -
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions
Published 2021The labour market effects in Southeast Asia of the COVID-19 pandemic have attracted considerable analysis from both scholars and practitioners. However, much less attention has been paid to the pandemic’s impact on legal ...Article -
Developing a Movement? Aid-Based Mediated Diffusion as a Strategy to Promote Labour Activism in post-Tsunami Aceh
Published 2011-01-01In this article we examine the extent to which mediated diffusion through trade union development aid succeeded in helping to establish a labour movement in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. The international labour movement ...Open AccessArticle -
Emerging Labour Movements and the Accountability Dilemma: The Case of Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This chapter begins by examining the arguments most often made about the differences between labor unions and labor NGOs and the effects those differences have on the nature and extent of their accountability to workers. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Employer Anti-Unionism in Democratic Indonesia
Published 2013-01-01Based on data collected from interviews conducted at regular intervals between 1999 and 2012, union surveys and reports and secondary sources, this chapter explores the different kinds of anti-union strategies used by ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Employment Relations and the State in Southeast Asia
Published 2016-01-01This article engages critically with the comparative employment relations literature, assessing its capacity to explain and analyse the relationship between state objectives – accumulation, pacification, legitimation – and ...Open AccessArticle -
Exhibition review: Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s “Retold-Untold Stories”
Published 2017-01-01Open AccessOther -
Experiments in Cross-Scalar Labour Organizing: Reflections on Trade Union-Building Work in Aceh after the 2004 Tsunami
Published 2012-01-01As part of the post-tsunami reconstruction effort Aceh, international labour movement organizations “jumped scale” in an attempt to revitalize a moribund local labour movement. This article provides a close analysis of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Fluid Boundaries: Modernity, Nation and Identity in the Riau Islands
Published 2009-01-01While there is growing scholarly interest in the everyday meanings and practices of nation building in Indonesia, there has been little consideration of the role the sea plays in drawing the nation together or in the ways ...Open AccessBook chapter -
From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar
Published 2016-01-01Privatisation is contentious but in Myanmar it has not so much been its merits or drawbacks that have attracted attention as questions around implementation. In Myanmar, the implementation of privatisation has broad ...Open AccessArticle -
From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
Published 2019-04-15What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook