Horizons of Home Nation, Gender and Migrancy in Island Southeast Asia

by Graham, Penelope; Tirtosudarmo, Riwanto; Winn, Phillip; Graham, Sara; Penny, Janet; Kelly, Claire; Hugo, Graeme; Williams, Catharina Purwani

• ISBN13: 9781876924294
• ISBN10: 1876924292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-10
• Publisher: Monash Asia Institute

Summary

"Mobility and migration, hardly new phenomena in Southeast Asia, raise intriguing questions about experiences of place, home and belonging. The term 'homeland' can refer to the modern nation of citizenship, but often 'homelands' may be places of origin socially memorialised in people's lives in far-distant locations. 'Homeland' may even refer to a sense of belonging painfully re-worked with respect to these new locations. The essays in this volume contribute to developing an understanding of how 'horizons of home' - spatial, temporal and political - inflect home-making in the present and describe social processes of departure, displacement and emplacement in contemporary island Southeast Asia."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Home and homeland: nation, gender and migrancy in island Southeast Asia	p. 1
The sacred and beloved maubere homeland: home, nation and resistance in East Timor	p. 15
Homeland and national belonging beyond borders: Filipino domestic workers and transmigrants as a global nation	p. 31
Migration in Indonesia: recent trends and implications	p. 45
Indonesians as Australians?	p. 71
Butonese in the Banda Islands: departure, mobility and identification	p. 85
Bugis migration to Samarinda, East Kalimantan: establishing a colony?	p. 101
Land, labour and liminality: Florenese women at home and abroad	p. 113
Crossing the threshold of home: eastern Indonesian migrants and shifting subjectivity	p. 133
Glossary	p. 149
Bibliography	p. 151
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