Intimate encounters: the ambiguities of belonging in the transnational migration of Indonesian domestic workers to Malaysia

Killias, Olivia

doi:10.1080/13621025.2014.964550

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“…For her, it can produce an ethical way of being in the world. As Killias (2014) points out, however, material practices can also be used to hinder belonging and assimilation.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Belonging In Contemporary Empirical Researchmentioning

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Fluidity and flexibility of “belonging”

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Studies framing “belonging” as a key focus and a central concept of research have increased significantly in the 2000s. This article explores the dimensions of belonging as a scholarly concept. The investigation is based on a qualitative content analysis of articles published in academic journals covering a large number of different disciplines. The article poses and answers the following research questions: How is belonging understood and used in contemporary research? What added value does the concept bring to scholarly discussions? In the analysis, five topoi of conceptualizing belonging – spatiality, intersectionality, multiplicity, materiality, and non-belonging – were identified. After introducing the topoi, the article explores their cross-cutting dimensions, such as the emphasis on the political, emotional, and affective dimensions of belonging, and discusses key observations made from the data, such as the substantial proportion of research on minorities and “vulnerable” people. The analysis of the data suggests that by choosing to use the concept of belonging, scholars seek to emphasize the fluid, unfixed, and processual nature of diverse social and spatial attachments.

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“…For her, it can produce an ethical way of being in the world. As Killias (2014) points out, however, material practices can also be used to hinder belonging and assimilation.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Belonging In Contemporary Empirical Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fluidity and flexibility of “belonging”

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“…Training centers in particular constitute central sites where Indonesian contract migrants in the domestic care sector are recruited, re-socialised, and deployed before they are permitted to work abroad. I build on the ethnographic strategy of "following the migrant" (Lindquist 2010;Rodriguez 2010;Lindquist, Xiang & Yeoh 2012;Killias 2014) by examining all the key steps, from recruitment to training and pre-departure orientation that prospective migrant domestics must traverse before they are able to secure overseas contracts.…”

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Re-defining the Stay-behind Indonesian Men: Changing Masculinities in the Context of Women’s Transnational Migration

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2020

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“…However, during the past twenty years, there has been a marked increase in the policing of territorial borders, a stricter regulation of immigration from Indonesia to Malaysia, and the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal Indonesian migrant workers from Malaysia (Spaan, Van Naerssen, and Kohl 2002). In this process, Indonesian migrant workers have been more and more portrayed as foreign 'aliens' in Malaysian public discourse, and the presence of Indonesian women in the most intimate spaces of Malaysian societynamely, middle-class family homes-has led to widespread moral panics (see Killias 2014Killias , 2018. I think that it is therefore important not to assume that Malaysia is automatically 'culturally […] much closer' (De Regt) to Indonesian migrant domestic workers.…”

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