Migration and Development: A case study of Indonesian migrant workers

DOI

10.2991/sores-18.2019.131How to use a DOI?

Keywords

migration; diaspora strategy; poverty; Jawa Timur

Abstract

This article aims to investigate how poor people in developing countries gain benefit from globalization by examining the opportunity to work as migrant worker. To respond the research gap, this study adopts a case study approach with a fieldwork survey in East Java Indonesia. The result indicates that diaspora strategy is almost impossible for the poor if he or she notices a high possibility for the employer to cheat those who work in domestic jobs, like nanny, driver, or baby sitter. Unless protection from both house and home countries is available, the diaspora strategy is not a better option for the migrant-work applicant. The paper contributes to the scholarly interest in the diaspora strategy to interrogate the assumption underlying the Migration-as-Development (MAD) discourse.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Maria Hastuti
AU  - Veny Megawati
AU  - Aluisius Hery Pratono
AU  - Muhammad Nour
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Migration and Development: A case study of Indonesian migrant workers
BT  - Proceedings of the Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 570
EP  - 576
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sores-18.2019.131
DO  - 10.2991/sores-18.2019.131
ID  - Hastuti2019/03
ER  -