- Authors: Anggaunita Kiranantika
- From: Sociology Department, State University of Malang
Abstract:
Transnational Indonesian worker is dynamics and fluctuating on 3 years. Javanese women have moved from villages and small towns from east Java Province, Indonesia to Singapore as domestic worker prior and employer on manufacture sector. this article points on Javanese women cones from East Java who took part on domestic worker on Singapore as the destination. Transnational migrants, described as Javanese women work, life and express their interest in several context rather than in a single nationstate. They maintenance and also upgrade their skill in Singapore. Capturing “space” concept on Transnational migration, One of established concept of “space” is territory defined by public boundaries. Moreover, Georg Simmel’s approach to spatial analysis, especially In “The Sociology of Space” was continuing to express “social geometry.” Simmel would attempt to catalog as the spatial reality of social life. Social remittances are the ideas, behaviors, identities, and social capital that migrants export to their home. They differ from global cultural flows in that it is possible to identify the channels through which they are disseminated and the determinants of their impact. Drawning from larger study of paid domestic worker in Singapore comes from East Java province, Indonesia using qualitative perspective. Research process was based primarily on non-random sampling using snowball system. Observing least 30 Javanese Women followed by indepth interview. Trans national movement involved working in the houses of their foreign employers. Distance from home allowed women the opportunity to transform themselves both physically and metaphorically.
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