Cross-Border Mobility: Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia

by Wendy Mee

This study documents the broader cultural consequences of Indonesian Malay women's work-related mobility on the practice and understanding of what it means to be Malay. In so doing, the book: Provides a rare investigation into the ethnocultural effects of Indonesian women's mobility (i.e, in term of the way women's mobility reconfigures ethnic identifications). Critically addresses the historically-informed assumption that Malay men, through their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463729011
• ISBN13: 9789463729017
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 266 Pages