Producing the Self-Regulating Subject: Liberal Protection in Indonesia's Migration Infrastructure

Labour protection has become a dominant agenda in global migration governance, particularly for sending countries whose diasporic citizens are denied political rights in host states. Despite having limited authority to arbitrate extraterritorial disputes, sending countries like Indonesia have deploy...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pacific affairs Jg. 91; H. 4; S. 695 - 716
1. Verfasser: Chang, Andy Scott
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver Pacific Affairs, a division of the University of British 01.12.2018
The University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia - Pacific Affairs
Pacific Affairs. The University of British Columbia
Schlagworte:
Accreditation
Alien labor
Certification
Civil rights
Competence
Contracts
Diaspora
Disputes
Domestic service
Domestic Workers
Emigration
Ethnography
Extraterritoriality
Gender
Governance
Governmentality
Indonesia
Infrastructure
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
International organizations
Labor market
Labor migration
Laws, regulations and rules
Liberalism
Methods
Migrant workers
Migrants
Migration
Morality
Overseas employment
Paternalism
Political participation
Professionalization
Protection
Rationality
Remittances
Rights
Selfprotection
Seminars
Skills
Skills Training
Training
Transformation
Transnationalism
Victims
Workers
Indonesia
Jakarta Indonesia
Philippines
Taiwan
ISSN:0030-851X, 1715-3379
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Zusammenfassung:Labour protection has become a dominant agenda in global migration governance, particularly for sending countries whose diasporic citizens are denied political rights in host states. Despite having limited authority to arbitrate extraterritorial disputes, sending countries like Indonesia have deployed novel techniques of statecraft to improve migrant protection. Through the prism of the professional competence exam and pre-departure orientation seminar, this article investigates the Indonesian state's regulatory practices that focus on migrant conduct. Although outbound domestic workers are subject to a prolonged process of skill formation, other Indonesian contract workers pursue emigration upon acquiring basic legal knowledge without undergoing accreditation. While both programs are designed to inculcate migrant capabilities for self-protection, the state's professionalization of domestic workers constitutes a liberal strategy of exclusion that is predicated on their master status as "vulnerable victims" in public discourse. To understand Indonesia's increasingly mediated migration infrastructure, then, requires attention to the liberal rationality of protection that involves the transformation of migrants into self-regulating subjects.
Bibliographie:(JA) Political Science - General
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ISSN:0030-851X
1715-3379
DOI:10.5509/2018914695