Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia

• Main Author: CHANG, Andy Scott
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: international migration; gender; work; globalization; Asia; Asian Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Inequality and Stratification; Migration Studies; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3304; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4552/viewcontent/SOCPRO_2019_232.R2_Proof_fl.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study examines how state and commercial actors construct gender, occupation, and nationality hierarchies in guest worker programs by comparing the migratory procedures for female domestic workers and male industrial operators from Indonesia. Based on 19 months of multi-sited ethnography and 86...