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2023, Anthropological approaches to reading migrant writing : Reimagining ethnographic methods, knowledge, and power
I focus on the creative writing produced by Indonesian female migrant workers, specifically those working in domestic service.
Proceeding of The American Studies International Conference (ASIC) 2018
The Representation of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Contemporary Indonesian Literature2019 •
Indonesia has a large number of overseas workers varying from professional workers to the unskilled, legal and illegal who take up work across the globe. In the public consciousness this group is characterized as taking considerable risk but can gain considerable financial reward. This paper will examine the theme of Indonesian migrant workers’ risks and rewards and a sense of belonging as represented in contemporary Indonesian short stories from 1992 to 2015. The paper draws upon the theory of narratology to analyze the representation of Indonesian migrant workers in six Indonesian short stories, three from the New Order Period and three from the Reformation era period. The stories themselves have been published in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. The sample has been chosen to represent a range of migrant worker experiences both in Indonesia and abroad, male and female, and skilled and unskilled. The paper finds that the representations of migrant worker’s sense of belonging ...
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Female Indonesian migrant domestic workers (DMWs) often get a negative predicate both in Indonesia and in destination countries. For example, DMWs in Singapore are treated unequally by Singaporean society, in Indonesia, as well, their work is seen as a lowly job. They can be categorized as a marginal group. Marginals are marginalized people whose rights are ruled out by people that have power. Hence, they find it difficult to adapt to their environment and they are always suppressed. The circumstances lead to the feeling of alienation for DMWs. The alienation they’ve experienced is often ignored as a reality of the life of migrant workers. This study takes the object of poetry by Female Indonesian DMWs in Singapore. It explores how marginalization and alienation are expressed in literary work by female domestic migrant workers. This study, also analyzes how the expression of literary work can be functioned as a medium to voice alienation and to overcome its problem. This research at...
Parse Journal
Indonesian Migrant Workers' Writings as a Performance of Self- Care and Embodied Archives2020 •
This essay is about Indonesian migrant workers, their writing, and the possibility to consider that as their own archives. Writing is a tool for archiving, and writing enables the migrant workers to document their own lives. The narratives of the migrant workers do not always make it into the narratives of the archival systems of the state. In contrast, the migrant workers' writing emerged as their own archives. Writing can also be used as a mechanism to endure the unjust working and living condition. Migrant workers are the active ingredients of the archives: being a migrant worker is an embodied experience, which remains an important source for writing stories. In the case of migrant workers, writing means to establish an alternative system of recording and archiving. I argue that the migrant workers' written texts are a performance of self-care and a form of embodied archiving.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technology and Educational Science
Creative Process in Writing Short Stories of the Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong2019 •
2020 •
Facilitated by The Voice of Singapore’s Invisible Hands, a non-profit organization (NPO) that promotes the rights and welfare of migrant workers in Singapore through literary works on Facebook, some Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers (IMDWs) in Singapore such as Seruni, Fadillah, et. al., to name a few, have been able to publish their poems and short stories in an anthology entitled “Familiar Strangers” (2018). To add to the current studies of literary works written by migrant workers that are about home and family as well as migratory experience of exile, loneliness, alienation, and isolation, the present study offers a different perspective of IMDW’s migratory experience working in Singapore that is depicted in the six selected poems through the postcolonial lens. Accordingly, it examines the migrant workers’ salient migratory experience of working in Singapore that, I argue, conveys voices of renegotiation for better IMDWs’ position as domestic workers and thus challenges certai...
Asian journal of social science
Follow the maid: Domestic worker migration in and from Indonesia, by Olivia Killias2020 •
Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society
Creative Process in Writing Short Stories by Female Domestic Workers2019 •
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Kafa`ah: Journal of Gender Studies
Indonesian Labor Women (TKW) Habitus and AgencyWorld Wide Women. Proceedings of the 2010 Turin Conference. CIRSde University of Turin ISBN 9788890555633
Migrant Writings: North America, Introduction.2011 •
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book Review of Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration In and From Indonesia by Olivia Killias2020 •
International Journal of Humanity Studies
Diaspora-Indonesian Literature Works of Indonesian Immigrants in America in 20102017 •
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde
Review of Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia by Olivia Killias. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde 175, nos. 2–3 (2019): 378–380. doi: 10.1163/22134379-175020092019 •
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Asia Pacific Journal - Japan Focus
Singapore's Migrant Worker Poetry, Worker Resistance, and International Solidarity2019 •
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Dialogues: anthropology and literature2024 •
International Migration
Performances across Time and Space: Drama in the Global Households of Filipina Transmigrant Workers2010 •
Global Labour Journal
Olivia Killias (2018) Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia2020 •
Raw Tales: An Anthropology of Postcolonial Writers in Exile
Raw Tales: An Anthropology of Postcolonial Writers in Exile2020 •
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