The Domestication of Protection
The State and Civil Society in Indonesia’s Overseas Labour Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2907454 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamungkas A Dewanto (0000-0002-6064-409X, 1 Vrije Universiteit The Netherlands Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 176 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 504-531 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-bja10018 |
| OpenAlex | W3103272532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article seeks to address some of the issues surrounding Indonesia's overseas labour protection programme. Despite the fundamental reform of the programme since 2004, observers have assessed that this programme has faced a considerable implementation deficiency. While many studies have identified that this programme was not successful, in this article I aim to explain why. I argue that the government and civil society organizations have helped define, frame, and impose the term 'protection' in the process of policy production. In that process, the two stakeholders have demonstrated 'the domestication of protection', or an attitude in which the stakeholders of migration view the problems that appear in overseas labour settings as being ones originating in the migrant-sending countries. Therefore, protection is limited to taking action directed at the migration process within the jurisdiction of the sending country. In my research on this topic, I mainly employed open-ended interviews and field observations between 2013 and 2019 in Indonesia and Malaysia
Action (physics · Business · Civil society · Development economics · Domestication · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Jurisdiction · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public relations · International Labor and Employment Law · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues
Indonesia's Overseas Labour Migration Programme, 1969-2010
Indonesian Politics and Society
Illegal’ Migration as Resistance
Migrant labour and the politics of scale
Immigrants’ social rights in comparative perspective
Social Security Regimes, Global Estimates, and Good Practices
Human Rights, State Sovereignty and the Protection of Undocumented Migrants under the International Migrant Workers Convention
Best Practice in Temporary Labour Migration for Development
Organizing the Unorganizable
Ties that bind
Globalisation and regulation of citizenship-Filipino migrant workers in Japan
How Ideas Spread
The Role of the State in the Globalisation of Labour Markets
Vernacularization on the ground
Indonesian migrant domestic workers in transnational political spaces
Migrant Rights and Activism in Malaysia
Technologies of Servitude
Labour Recruitment, Circuits of Capital and Gendered Mobility
Opening the Black Box of Migration
The Elementary School Teacher, the Thug and his Grandmother
Producing the Self-Regulating Subject
Of figures and types
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |