The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands

by Johan A. Lindquist

Book Overview

Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and as prostitutes servicing working class tourists from Singapore. Indonesians also move across the border in search of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833155
• ISBN13: 9780824833152
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"