Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration from Indonesia

by Olivia Killias

Book Overview

This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from one particular village in Central Java and tracks the moral, social, economic and legal processes by which they are turned into 'maids'. From recruitment by local brokers to the 'training'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776942279
• ISBN13: 9788776942274
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"