Women versus the State: Organizing Resistance and Contesting Exploitation in Indonesian Labor Migration to Hong Kong
Women versus the State: Organizing Resistance and Contesting Exploitation in Indonesian Labor Migration to Hong Kong
复制标题
妇女与国家：在印尼劳工移徙到香港时组织抵抗和竞争剥削
DOI：
10.1177/011719680901800103
复制
发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
Amy Sim
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Amy Sim
本文考察了国家和私营部门在临时劳动力迁移中的作用，以及移民工人抵制劳务输出国压迫性做法的反应。更准确地说，它探讨了在印尼移民妇女中建立债务奴役的国家支持的做法，以及国家对香港印尼妇女劳工运动发展的反应。从2000年开始，香港的印尼女性移民工人开始集体组织起来，这项关于劳工移民中女性激进主义的研究质疑了她们的基本观念和实践，这些观念和实践是赋予女性权力的基础。虽然赋予妇女权力的想法和定义差异很大，赋予妇女权力的尝试并不总能带来改变剥夺妇女权力的结构的预期效果，但本文将试图说明为什么某些赋予妇女权力的模式会导致结构转变，而另一些模式对妇女来说则不太有希望。本文记录了妇女劳动力迁移的历史现象，并总结了一些使妇女赋权成为社会和集体品质的原则。
This article examines the role of the state and the private sector in temporary labor migration and the responses of migrant workers to resist oppressive practices in labor export from the sending country. More precisely, it explores state-backed practices in the creation of debt bondage among Indonesian migrant women and state responses to developments in the Indonesian women's labor movement in Hong Kong. Indonesian women migrant workers in Hong Kong had begun to organize collectively from 2000 and this study of women's activism in labor migration interrogates their grounded notions and practices that underlie women's empowerment. While ideas and definitions of women's empowerment vary widely and attempts to empower women do not always bring about the desired effects of transforming disempowering structures, this article will attempt to show why certain modes of empowerment lead to structural transformations while others are less promising for women. This article serves as documentation of a historical phenomenon in women's labor migration and concludes with some of the principles that engender women's empowerment as social and collective qualities.