Javanese labour, migration and diaspora
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hoefte, Rosemarijn > (ed.)
- Creator
- Meel, Peter > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- ZO AZ 5 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, migratie, huishoudelijke arbeid, etniciteit, identiteit, diaspora, Indonesië, Suriname, Azië, bundel
- Description
- This volume traces the different ways in which Javanese migrants and migrant communities are connected in their host society and with Java as a real or imagined authoritative source of norms, values and loyalties. The labour element dominates the Indonesian overseas experience. The book also shows how ethnicity, class, gender, religion and hierarchy have shaped the dynamics of diasporic communities. The chapters pay particular attention to gender as, since the 1960s, women for the first time have formed the majority of international migrants, domestic work being the largest category of transnational work.