Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Migrant Labor NGOs and Trade Unions: A Partnership in Progress?
Published 2006-01-01Over the last two decades, the needs and interests of temporary international labor migrants in Southeast Asia have overwhelmingly been the concern of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rather than trade unions. However, ...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 -
Learning by Doing: Trade Unions and Electoral Politics in Batam, Indonesia, 2004-2009
Published 2014-01-01Academic studies of local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia focus on the emergence of coalitions between parties and candidates, arguing that the entrenched and dominant role of political elites has effectively excluded ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
Indonesian Women as Export Commodity: Notes from Tanjung Pinang
Published 2001-01-01In Indonesia, the plight of TKW (Tenaga Kerja Wanita - the common term for women migrant workers) has been a subject of public controversy for decades. Academic accounts of the conditions of Indonesian migrant domestic ...Open AccessArticle