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- Title
The Conditioning of Servitude: Governmentality of Indonesian Domestic Migrants in singapore.
- Authors
Bennington, Monica
- Abstract
The transnationalization of reproductive labor to lower-class Indonesian female migrants has allowed Singapore to become a highly industrialized nation by drawing more women into the formal economy. Using Foucault's theory of governmentality, this paper will argue that institutional and physiological conditioning techniques are used at every stage of migration to compel Indonesian domestic workers to accept exploitative working conditions in Singapore. The framework of feminist geography will be used to discuss how Indonesian female migrants' geographical autonomies are undermined through the conditioning process, which forces these migrants to inhabit specific spaces of invisibility and marginalization during their international placements. This evidence adds to the discussion about Southeast Asian countries by demonstrating that migration and excessive reliance on remittances has negative effects on the development of a nation.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; PEONAGE; GOVERNMENTALITY; IMMIGRANTS; WOMEN migrant labor
- Publication
Undercurrent, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 2, p33
- ISSN
1712-0934
- Publication type
Article