Carol Chan

In Sickness and in Wealth

Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the origin community and provides a fascinating look at how gender, faith, and shame shape these decisions to migrate. Villagers evaluate men and women's migrations differently, leading to different ideas about which kinds of human or financial flows should be encouraged and which should be discouraged or even criminalize. Despite routine and well-documented instances of Indonesian migrant labor exploitation, some villagers still emphasize that a migrant's success or failure ultimately depends on that individual's morality, fate, and destiny. Indonesian villagers construct strategies for avoiding migration-related risks which are closely linked to faith and belief in supernatural agency. These strategies shape the flow of migration from the country and help to ensure the continued faith Indonesian people have in migration as an act of promise and hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780253037060
• ISBN-10: 0253037069
• Artikelnr.: 50428005

Autorenporträt

Carol Chan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on Names and Indonesian Currency
List of Abbreviations and Terms
Introduction: Faith in Migration
1. The Politics of Morality and Identity in Central Java
2. Mobilizing and Moralizing Indonesian Labor
3. Evaluating Migrant Success and Failure
4. Shame
5. Faith
6. Contesting the Terms of Belonging
Conclusion: Gendered Moral Economies of Migration
Bibliography
Index