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How Dare You Talk Back?!

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How dare you talk back?!" Spatialised Power Practices in the Case of Indonesian Domestic Workers in MalaysiarnrnEvery day Indonesian women from rural areas migrate to richer countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan , and Saudi Arabia, to work as paid domestic workers at other people's home. Despite the transnational mobility, these eomen are rendered immobile in the home of the employers. The lack of recognition from the state gives over the responsibility for defining the working conditions to the employers, leading to often precarious conditions.rnrn"How dare you talk back?!' offers an analysis of spatialised power relations between Malaysian employers and Indonesian women in the context of paid domestic work. This study askes: What kind of spatialised domination and exploitation practices by the employers can be resistance practices by the workers can be identified in this form of embodied labour? What kind of spatialised resistance practices by the workers can be identified to contest the exercise of power by the employers? Stories of these Indonesian Women suggest the home and the body as the main levels of analysis, where the intersections of gender, class, nationality/ethnicity and immigration status inform and are reinforces through these power practices

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331.4 HIE h

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Uppsala, Sweden : Uppsala Universitet., 2016

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216 p.; ilus.; 25 cm

Language

English

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978-91-506-2604-9

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331.4

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Cet.1, 2018

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meanwhile, practices at the national level by the state, media and recruitment/placement agencies and globalisation processes are identified as interrelated factors that legitimate the emloyers' pract

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