A virtual ethnography study of Indonesian migrant domestic workers’ empowerment in online communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21452138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stevanus Wisnu Wijaya (0000-0003-0854-0127, Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, corresponding author), Jason Watson (0000-0001-8233-9195, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia), Christine Bruce (0000-0002-4846-3720, Graduate Research School, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 921-939 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Behaviour and Information Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-929X • E-ISSN: 1362-3001 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144929x.2022.2052184 |
| OpenAlex | W4226518781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 53 |
This paper discusses how online practices relate to empowering outcomes at individual and community levels. To understand the phenomenon in a natural setting, a virtual ethnography approach to Indonesian online domestic migrant workers’ communities was adopted to explore the empowerment of migrant domestic workers. The findings show that, at an individual level, migrant domestic workers need to engage in various practices, which contribute to their well-being. The well-being of migrants can be assessed in terms of their self-efficacy, self-esteem, reduced loneliness and reduced stress, all of which enhance their capabilities to take control over migration processes. But, as a community, they can conduct online practices that contribute to their ability to improve their communal external engagement. Community’s external engagement contributes to the awareness of their power and abilities to take action towards change. Online communities enable migrant domestic workers, who live in an isolated workplace, to penetrate the boundaries and engage in various practices that empower them as individuals and community as a whole
Economic growth · Empowerment · Ethnography · Indonesian · Migrant workers · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · ICT in Developing Communities · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Sex work and related issues
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Social Media and the Organization of Collective Action
Empowerment
Cognitive Elements of Empowerment
Social media and migration
Transnational Migration and the Gender Politics of Scale
Netnography
The use of social media among Indonesia’s Migrant Workers (IMWs)
Empowerment for migrant communities
Quarterly Review of Distance Education
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Youth Empowerment Programs for Improving Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem
The Internet, employment and Polish migrant workers
Community Technology and Democratic Rationalization
Subactivism
Online communities
Information, Exploitation and Empowerment
Empowerment theory, research, and application
Psychological empowerment
Community Engagement
In praise of paradox
Many Clicks but Little Sticks
Trans-local ties, local ties and psychological well-being among rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai
Illness and Internet Empowerment
Defining empowerment
Structuring Migrants' Political Activities on the Internet
Migration and Diaspora in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies
Transnational Families and Social Technologies
Technologies of Servitude
Wellbeing Among Indonesian Labour Migrants to Malaysia
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |