Download or read book Indonesian Women Workers written by Working Group of Indonesian NGOʼs on the Women Workers Right and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Work in Indonesia written by Michele Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about work and economic activity, focusing on what women themselves see as their work, which includes not only paid employment, home life and child care, but also activities surrounding ritual, healing and religious life. It analyses the key issues, including the contrasts between ‘new’ and ‘old’ forms of work, the relationship between experiences of migration and work, and the ways in which religion – especially Islam - shapes perceptions and practice of work. It discusses women’s work in a range of different settings, both rural and urban, and in different locations, covering Sumatra, Bali, Lombok, Java, Sulawesi and Kalimantan. A wide range of types of employment are considered: agricultural labour, industrial work and new forms of work in the tertiary sector such as media and tourism, demonstrating how capitalism, globalization and local culture together produce gendered patterns of work with particular statuses and identities. It address the question of the meaning and valuing of women’s ‘traditional’ work, be it agricultural labour, domestic work or other kinds of reproductive labour, challenging assumptions of women as ‘only’ mothers and housewives, and demonstrating how women can negotiate new definitions of ‘housewife’ by mobilizing kinship and village relations to transcend conventional categories such as wage labour and the domestic sphere. Overall, this book is an important study of the meaning of work for women in Indonesia.
Download or read book Dreamseekers written by Dewi Anggraeni and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the women come to recruitment agencies to work as domestic helpers overseas, they begin building the foundation of their dreams of a better future. During their training following the recruitment, their dreams assume colours and shapes. They leave their homeland with high hopes and aspirations. Arriving at their destinations, the workers quickly realize that no amount of training can prepare them for the shock of the cold, foreign world which confronts them. Those who are placed with considerate employers have generally happy working lives. Those who are placed with employers who expect ready-to-use service from their domestic helpers have a long and rocky road to navigate. With very little bargaining power and negotiating skills, as well as social prejudice from many parts of the community, these women's dreams can easily turn into nightmares. In Dreamseekers: Indonesian Women as Domestic Workers in Asia, veteran journalist Dewi Anggraeni uncovers the hidden world of domestic helpers from all points of view: the employers, the agents, the governments, the NGOs, and most importantly the workers themselves. This first-hand account of the struggles and successes of these women is described in vivid detail, and Dreamseekers is a must-read by anyone interested in the plight of these remarkable women. About the Author Dewi Anggraeni, a native of Jakarta, is a journalist and novelist now residing in Melbourne. She is the Australia correspondent for Tempo and regular contributor to the Jakarta Post. Her works have been published in Australia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the USA, the UK, and Malaysia. Dewi has also published seven books, the latest being Who Did This to our Bali and a novel, Snake, (2003, Indra Publishing). She has also contributed to various anthologies and collections of essays including "Journey to my Cultural Home", in Weaving a Double Cloth (2002, Pandanus Books).
Download or read book Indonesian women workers in the putting out system written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant Women s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory written by Florence Nyemba and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today's world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized, with women increasingly moving as independent or single migrants rather than as the wives, mothers, or daughters of male migrants. Yet, in literature on migration, the voices of women are still silent. This creates an urgent need to advance academic research on female international migration by examining women as independent migrants. Immigrant Women's Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory comprehensively documents the experiences of immigrant women across the globe and the important theories that define their experiences. The chapters give firsthand accounts of women speaking about their own experiences on migration and topics associated with women and migration. This book aims to give women their own voice and to stand apart from previous literature in which male relatives spoke on behalf of immigrant women to tell their stories for them. While highlighting topics on women in migration including feminism, gendered social roles, first-person narratives, and the female identity, this book is ideally for professionals in social science disciplines as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students wanting to expand their knowledge on women and migration, gender violence, and women empowerment.
Download or read book The Making of Indonesian Women Worker Activists written by Nori Andriyani and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in Indonesia written by Kathryn Robinson and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Indonesia: gender, equity and development.
Download or read book Fearless Speech in Indonesian Women s Writing written by Jafar Suryomenggolo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering perspectives from Indonesian female workers, this book discusses the contemporary progress of working-class feminism from the Global South. It presents a critical reading of the socio-political conditions that allow female workers to narrate their lives and work as precariat labor toiling under the forces of globalization. Its analysis centers on their writings which appear in the form of legal documents, personal accounts, essays, and short stories. Thus, the book shows how these women change their situation by challenging the political order and demanding gender justice with their fearless speech.
Download or read book Indonesian Women in a Changing Society written by E. Kristi Poerwandari and published by Ewha Womans University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women and Households in Indonesia written by Juliette Koning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines the usefulness of the 'household; concept within the historically and culturally diverse context of Indonesia, exploring in detail the position of women within and beyond domestic arrangements. So far, classical household and kinship studies have not studied how women deal with two major forces which shape and define their world: local kinship traditions, and the universalising ideology of the Indonesian regime, which both provide prescriptions and prohibitions concerning family, marriage, and womanhood. Women are caught between these conflicting notions and practices. How they challenge or accommodate such forces is the main issue in this book.
Download or read book Predictors of Career Commitment of Indonesian Women Workers written by Wilman D. Mansoer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HOME AND AWAY INDONESIAN WOMEN AND THEIR UNIQUE TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION EXPERIENCES IN MALAYSIA written by MASHITAH HAMIDI and published by The University of Malaya Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the migration processes and experiences of female labour migrants from Indonesia to Malaysia’s manufacturing sector. Their stories depict labour migration as a process shaped by the intersection of external, structural forces and individual desires and motivations. Labour migration was valued and evaluated as an “investment”, one that was calculated not only in terms of financial security but also in relation to personal rewards and experiences unavailable to them at home. These labour migrants negotiated a number of externally imposed demands and conditions, ranging from migration regulations, the challenges of settlement in a new city, factory floor relations, and the negative stereotypes attached to female Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. Such constraints did not simply result in their sense of victimisation, as the interviews revealed the women’s capacity to resist, negotiate and comply with such factors. The book distinguishes between two groups of migrants: inexperienced, first-time migrants and experienced repeat migrants.
Download or read book Women in Transition written by Sock-Chin Amy Sim and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Women in Transition: Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong" by Sock-chin, Amy, Sim, 沈淑真, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstractofthesisentitled "WomenInTransition: IndonesianDomesticWorkersinHongKong" Submittedby SIMSockChinAmy ForthedegreeofDoctorofPhilosophy attheUniversityofHongKong inJuly2007 This thesis is about the phenomenon of Indonesian women's labour migration to Hong Kong as domestic workers, their experiences and responses to unfamiliar situations, in three main areas outside of work, that shape their ideas of their values, roles, identities, expectations and life trajectories. These include their participation in labourpoliticsandsocialmovementsinHongKong;theirchoicesregardingtheirsexual behavior and sexuality; and their responses to impediments present in the labour import/exportsystembybecomingillegalmigrants.ItexploresIndonesianwomen'slived experiences instatesof 'dislocation', shows how themigratoryexperience affectsthem asindividualsandculturalbeingsinthecontextofmoderndayprocessesofmigration.In the process, it elicits the articulation of migrant women's experiences with prevailing ideologiesinIndonesia, whichincludestheirconstructionsofwomen, genderroles, and relationstothefamily, marketandthestate. Thisthesisarguesthatnon-workactivitiesduringtheirrestperiodsconstitutecritical sitesfortheexpressivityofIndonesianwomenmigrantworkerswhoarerequiredbythe termsoftheiremploymentcontractstolivewiththeiremployerssixdaysaweek.Itisinthese periods of relative freedom from employer supervision that the juxtaposition of instrumental relations versus relations of self-expression provide insights into how women migrant workers experience their migratory experience and what this means in termsofchangestonotionsofselvesandtheirculturalvalues. In the chapter on labour organising, this thesis captures the rise of Indonesian women'slabour activism in Hong Kong and show how such participation is personally meaningfultothem, howitinfluencestheirindividualtransformationsandtheemergence of women grassroots leaders from amongst them. For Indonesian women migrant workers who become romantically or sexually involved, their experiences during migration are not without conflict, vacillating between the expectations of normative behaviourinIndonesiaandtherealitiesofmigrantlife.Theirexperiencesinthisareaof social life provide a kaleidoscope of strategies that fulfill their needs for love and intimacy. Young and ill-prepared, some fall prey to male sexual predation, some are coerced, some become pregnant and single mothers, and others become illegal overstayers who face arrest, imprisonment and deportation. Some choose same sex relationships to protect themselves from the dangers of becoming 'fallen' women, upholding the cultural norms and expectations that are important at home in Indonesia. Assuch, thisthesisprovidesinsights, analysisandanarrativeofsomeoftheresponsesof Indonesian women migrant workers in Hong Kong to patriarchal and nationalistic construction of women's role and sexuality back home. This thesis also examines the factors that lead to their decisions to become illegal migrants and why, when they do decideto, surrendertotheauthorities. This thesis concludes that even as overseas labour migration can be potentially liberating and rewarding for Indonesian women migrant workers, as poor women inIndonesia, theirvulnerabilitiesareperpetuatedbystructuralandculturalrulesthatshape theirmigratoryexperience. (490words) DOI: 10.5353/th_b3830580 Subjects: Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong Women - Socia
Download or read book Women and Men at Work in Indonesia written by Mayling Oey-Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Change written by Jan Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indonesian Women written by Mayling Oey-Gardiner and published by Australian National U D Asian Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia's struggles from an Indonesian perspective
Download or read book Love Sex and Activism written by Amy SIM and published by Amy Sim. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the lives of Indonesian women employed in Hong Kong as Foreign Domestic Helpers. It tells of their lives as labour activists, leaders, religious leaders, lovers of men and women, undocumented migrants when they overstay their visas, single mothers and as wives in marriages that take place in Hong Kong. The reader will learn the inside stories of what gave them strength and the barriers they encountered to personal empowerment. I introduce the role of migrant-NGOs that assist them in Hong Kong and examine the nature of power exercised by the State and other non-State actors such as migrant-NGOs, employers and civil society that characterise their experiences in Hong Kong. Based on fifteen years of ethnographic research in Hong Kong, there are eleven chapters in this book. Chapter One begins with the effect of the Asian Financial Crisis that witnessed the systematic and exponential increase of Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong from 1,000 in 1990 to 40,000 in 2000 and 150,000 by 2011. Chapter Two provides the background of their employment in Hong Kong and their social and legal exclusions as Foreign Domestic Workers that gives context to the ensuing chapters. Chapter Three is about the rise of Indonesian women's labour activism, their participation and understanding of their own roles as activists and grassroots leaders. Chapter Four is about the rise of consciousness amongst Indonesian women migrant workers about their role as Muslims and their emergence as religious leaders for their compatriots in migration. Chapter Five presents their perspectives of power, leadership and authority as secular grassroots leaders in the Indonesian activist community in Hong Kong. Chapter Six presents Indonesian women's experiences of disempowerment in Indonesia from their discussions of a range factors including poverty, broken families, adultery, arranged marriages, son-preferences, favouritism among siblings, domestic violence in marriage, etc. and how activism in Hong Kong helped them recover. Chapter Seven is about the centrality of women's shelters and networks in Hong Kong and the nature of migrant-NGOs' role, leadership and power vis a vis grassroots migrant activists and leaders, and their supporters. Chapter Eight showcases the romantic relationships of Indonesian women migrants in Hong Kong with both local and foreign men, the problem of sexual violence, unwanted pregnancies, babies born in Hong Kong and brought home to Indonesia, those put up for adoption and Indonesian women's marriages and settlement in Hong Kong. Chapter Nine examines the stories of Indonesian women involved in same-sex relationships in Hong Kong with other Indonesian women, what these relationships mean to them and the relationship between labour migration and Indonesian women's transitory homosexual liaisons in Hong Kong. Chapter Ten is about how illegalities are created in labour migration by the nature of a range of actors including their employers, recruitment and employment agencies, by the State and its representatives and by Indonesian women who overstay their visas. It presents their experiences and perspectives as overstayers and highlights the dangers they encounter as undocumented migrants in Hong Kong. Chapter Eleven highlights further areas of research and concludes with theoretical concerns about how Indonesian women's agencies as individuals are often misread and the problems of misunderstanding agencies as generic, similar across different social groups (including women) and between individuals and institutionalised and collectivised agencies in academic work. The Author Amy Sim is a Cultural Anthropologist (PhD, HKU). She taught Anthropology, Gender, Globalisation and Migration Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Her research and publications focus on women’s transnational labour migration in East and Southeast Asia, women’s empowerment, leadership, gender issues and sexuality, and the development of NGOs for migrant workers in Hong Kong. She is an advocate of migrant women domestic workers in East and Southeast Asia for two decades. Prior to academia, she worked with communities in developing countries on issues of Sustainable Development from eco-tourism in Indonesia to income generation for women’s empowerment projects in Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. She was involved in international research, development and advocacy projects for the Governments of Canada and the United Kingdom and international NGOs.
