A New Portrait of Indentured Labour: Vietnamese Labour Migration to Malaysia
A New Portrait of Indentured Labour: Vietnamese Labour Migration to Malaysia
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契约劳工的新形象：越南劳工移徙到马来西亚
DOI：
10.1163/156853110x530787
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
L. T. Hương
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作者：
L. T. Hương
本文以越南工人前往马来西亚的轨迹为例，讨论了国际劳动力迁移中低技能移徙工人的招聘程序和自主权的逐渐丧失。它认为，关于契约劳工和所有其他形式的债务劳役的辩论今天仍然具有现实意义，因为这种做法的新表现形式现在隐藏在广泛的经济交流和国家间经济合作的背后。对越南劳工移徙过程的详细研究表明，从“自愿”负债开始的移徙轨迹最终导致马来西亚的从属和固定外来工人的地位。债务和合同之间的相互关系在这里起着核心作用。在当地招聘人员充满希望的信息和官方对移民的支持的鼓励下，候选工人欣然同意签署三重合同，这将使他们在马来西亚工作。在这个过程中，他们逐渐陷入对招聘人员、国家（银行）和雇主的义务网络，导致他们在马来西亚生活和工作的自主权受到严重限制。
This paper discusses the recruitment procedure and the gradual loss of autonomy of low-skilled migrant workers in international labour migration, by using the example of Vietnamese workers’ trajectories to Malaysia. It argues that debates on indentured labour and all other forms of bonded labour remain relevant today as new manifestations of the practice are now concealed behind extensive economic exchanges and inter-state economic cooperation. A detailed study of the process of Vietnamese labour migration shows how migratory trajectories that start from ‘voluntary’ indebtedness eventually lead to a status of subordinate and immobilised guest workers in Malaysia. The interrelations between debt and contracts play here a central role. Encouraged by the promising messages of local recruiters and the official support for migration, candidate workers readily consent to sign the triple contracts that will lead them to work in Malaysia. In the process, they gradually get entangled in a web of obligations towards their recruiter, their state (bank) and their employer, leading to severe restrictions in their autonomy over life and work in Malaysia.