The Politics of Bondage in the Recruitment, Training and Placement of Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers
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The Politics of Bondage in the Recruitment, Training and Placement of Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers
Sociologus, Vol. 59 (2009), Iss. 2 : pp. 145–172
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1Olivia Killias, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern, Länggassstrasse 49a, 3000 Bern 9, Schweiz.
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Abstract
Indonesia is one of the major labour sending countries in contemporary Asia. While Indonesians, and especially the Javanese, have a long tradition of mobility, what has been called the “institutionalisation” of labour exporting started in the 1870's, under Dutch colonial rule. At that time, migrant workers originating from Java were mostly male “coolies” sent to work as indentured labourers on mines and plantations on the Indonesian Outer Islands. Nowadays, women represent the overwhelming majority of migrant workers departing from Indonesia, and most of them are sent abroad as domestic workers. Interestingly, even though indentured labour has officially been abolished in Indonesia in 1932, the contemporary system of contract labour migration is in many ways very similar to nineteenth and twentieth century indentured labour. By looking in particular at the practices of state and non-state actors involved in the “export” of Indonesian maids to Malaysia, this paper seeks to analyse the processes that migrant domestic workers go through in Indonesia
Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die heutige Migration indonesischer Frauen im Kontext historischer Formen der Arbeitsmigration in Südostasien und stellt dabei den
Unter niederländischer Kolonialherrschaft waren es vor allem Männer, die auf andere indonesische Inseln geschickt wurden, um dort in Minen und auf Plantagen zu arbeiten. Heutzutage sind es meist Frauen, die Indonesien verlassen, und die Mehrheit von ihnen sind als Hausangestellte in Hongkong und Ländern wie Saudi-Arabien, Malaysia oder Kuwait tätig. Die Arbeitsmigration dieser Frauen scheint dem System der Kontraktarbeit (