Managing Boundaries between (Dirty) Work and Church Life for Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan

Mutiara, Median

doi:10.22492/ijcs.3.2.04

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“…All of their registries and documents were arranged by the broker. Their apartment to live was also set up by him; thus, in the first years of migration, the Nikkeijin did not interact directly with the local people (Mutiara 2018).…”

Section: Migration In Rural Oaraimentioning

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“…The previous studies indicate that the relationship between migrant and local neighbors in Japan underwent social and cultural difficulties. The difficulties of incorporating foreigners into Japanese society have been illustrated by the experience of the Brazilians (Tsuda 2003), the Koreans and the Chinese ( De Carvalho 2003), and the Indonesians (Pudjiastuti 2005;Mutiara 2018). Pudjiastuti (2005) notes that the poor relations between migrants and Japanese neighbors in a rural town, Oarai, even resulted in the authoritative measures of a mass arrest of migrant workers in 2002, which was triggered by Japanese neighbors' complaints and reports on noise.…”

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“…Pudjiastuti (2005) notes that the poor relations between migrants and Japanese neighbors in a rural town, Oarai, even resulted in the authoritative measures of a mass arrest of migrant workers in 2002, which was triggered by Japanese neighbors' complaints and reports on noise. A very recent work by Mutiara (2018) on the boundaries between factory work and church roles for migrants in Oarai also gives a glimpse of clue that neighbor conflict remains exists in contemporary Oarai. One participant in her work mentioned that her neighbors were "urusaii (noisy)," and "curious" of what her families do and wear (Mutiara 2018, p. 55).…”

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Noise Complaints between Japanese Neighbors and Migrants in Rural Japan: From the Perspectives of Noisemakers

Mutiara

2018

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This paper focuses on the narratives and embodiment of noisemakers in noise complaints in a small town of rural Japan. By building on the intersection of sound studies, body, and migration, this paper aims to critically address the long-discussed concept of ‘noise’ through the perspectives of migrants who are perceived as ‘noisemakers’ in the neighbor relations between Japanese neighbors and migrants. This study was conducted through months of fieldwork in a small town in Japan, in which an ethnic concentration of Japanese descendants from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been residing for almost two decades. Sensory ethnography was adopted in addition to participant observation and in-depth interviews that presented the narratives of five Japanese descendants working in seafood processing factories. The findings suggest that perception of the ‘unwanted’ bodily presence becomes a salient metaphorical sense of ‘noise’ which is embodied in migrants as byproducts of the psychological noise of the hearers. This ‘noise’ evokes series of complaints which also escalate into space control in the neighborhood. More than just neighbor relations in negotiating private–public spaces, the phenomena of noisemaking and noise complaints in this study are layered with overlapping unequal social and power structures concerning neighbors, workers, and migrants with stigma of gaijin and ‘noisemakers’.

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Section: Migration In Rural Oaraimentioning

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