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Temporary Labour Migration and Care Work: The Japanese Experience
Published 2013-01-01Around the world, advanced industrial societies are facing a demographic time bomb that has enormous implications for the workforce in general, but for workforce planning and industrial relations in the health sector and ...Open AccessArticle -
Temporary Transnationals: Southeast Asian Students in Australia
Published 2011-01-01Despite rapidly increasing global flows of international students, research to date has paid little heed to how students abroad identify and mobilise. Focusing on the experience of Indonesians, Malaysians and Singaporeans ...Open AccessArticle -
Trade Unions, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking
Published 2015-01-01This article examines the dilemmas facing trade unions seeking to engage on questions of forced labour and human trafficking. The International Labour Organization and elements of the international trade union movement ...Open AccessArticle -
Trafficking Versus Smuggling: Malaysia's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act
Published 2014-01-01In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Malaysian government has faced increasing pressure to improve its treatment of its large migrant population. To address international criticism and to improve the treatment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Translating Membership into Power at the Ballot Box? Trade Union Candidates and Worker Voting Patterns in Indonesia’s National Elections
Published 2015-01-01This article analyses the effectiveness of trade unions’ electoral engagement in the union-dense electoral localities of Bekasi and Tangerang in Indonesia’s 2009 legislative elections. Our analysis reveals that legacies ...Open AccessArticle -
Travelling the Aspal Route: Grey Labour Migration through an Indonesian Border Town
Published 2011-01-01This chapter explores the state's role in semi-legal migration flows through Tanjung Pinang, the capital city of the province of Kepulauan Riau (the Riau Islands) in the borderlands between Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
An uphill battle: A case example of government policy and activist dissent on the death penalty for drug-related offences in Indonesia
Published 2021In 2014, newly-elected President Joko Widodo announced that Indonesia was facing a national ‘emergency’ due to high levels of drug use that necessitated harsh criminal justice responses, including the ultimate punishment ...Open AccessArticle -
A Victor's History: A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Historiography of Indonesia's New Order
Published 2010-01-01Some observers have identified a common pattern in developing countries whereby unions are transformed from a political force valued for their contribution to the struggle for independence to a state-sponsored ‘tool of ...Open AccessArticle -
Violent Industrial Protest in Indonesia: Cultural Phenomenon or Legacy of an Authoritarian Past?
Published 2013-01-01Indonesia has a long history of violent industrial conflict involving rioting and wide-scale destruction of property, in addition – and sometimes as an alternative – to more orthodox strike actions. Violent actions taken ...Open AccessBook chapter -
When news becomes entertainment: Representations of corruption in Indonesia’s media and the implication of scandal
Published 2013-01-01In the current political climate, the Indonesian media is able to report openly on a range of previously taboo political issues (Sen & Hill, 2000; Kakiailatu, 2007; Tapsell, 2010). One issue that garners substantial attention ...Open AccessArticle -
‘Where Are Your Victims?’
Published 2010-01-01The United States has played a key role in international efforts to address trafficking in Indonesia, as elsewhere. In October 2001, the US State Department established an Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, ...Open AccessArticle -
Where Internal and International Migration Intersect: Mobility and the Formation of Multi-Ethnic Communities in the Riau Islands Transit Zone
Published 2007-01-01While migration studies scholars have paid considerable attention to internal migration within Indonesia, as well as to international labour migration flows from Indonesia, they have rarely considered the intersections ...Open AccessArticle -
Who are the Orang Riau? Negotiating Identity across Geographic and Ethnic Divides
Published 2003-01-01Debates about identity have multiplied across Indonesia in the wake of the implementation of regional autonomy. In the ethnically heterogeneous province of Riau, identity is prominent in the public debate and pivotal to ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Women and labour organizing in Asia: diversity, autonomy and activism
Published 2008-01-01Women have become the new face of industrial labour – and of labour activism – not only in Korea, in all but the most and least developed countries of Asia. Export-oriented industrialization strategies favoured throughout ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Women's Labor Activism in Indonesia
Published 2008-01-01In her discussion of working‐class women’s labor activism in Thailand, Mary Beth Mills argues that an understanding of the “diverse ideological effects, structural constraints, and contested identities within women’s labor ...Open AccessArticle