The Anxieties of Mobility

Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands

Bibliographic Data

ID19906599
AuthorsJ Lindquist (0000-0002-8145-2580, corresponding author), Johan A Lindquist
Year2017
Pages216
Publication date2017-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAnxieties of Mobility (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9780824864583
OpenAlexW1604036709
Open LibraryOL29357723M
ISBN9780824864583
LanguageEN
Citations received42

Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and as prostitutes servicing working class tourists from Singapore. Indonesians also move across the border in search of work in Malaysia and Singapore as plantation and construction workers or maids. Export processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vilified in contemporary debates on economic globalization. The Anxieties of Mobility moves beyond these dichotomies to explore the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. Johan Lindquist's extensive fieldwork allows him to portray globalization in terms of relationships that bind individuals together over long distances rather than as a series of impersonal economic transactions

Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Indonesian · Indonesian government · Tourism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Batam Island · Economic aspects · Economic aspects of Globalization · Globalization · Indonesia · Marginality, social · Migrant labor · Social aspects · Social aspects of Globalization · Social Marginality · Women · Women migrant labor

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