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Elias, Juanita and Louth, Jonathan (2016) Producing migrant domestic work : exploring the everyday political economy of Malaysia’s ‘maid shortage’. Globalizations, 13 (6). pp. 830-845. doi:10.1080/14747731.2016.1155340 ISSN 1474-7731.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1155340
Abstract
The article considers how the employment of domestic workers by middle class Malaysian households has been thrown into flux by the imposition of bans on the sending of workers by states such as Indonesia and Cambodia, as well as the decline in numbers of women seeking employment as domestic workers in Malaysia and rising employment costs. This article does not seek to focus on the high-level policy negotiations and disputes that have come to characterize systems of temporary return migration for domestic work in Asia, but to focus in on the everyday political economies (of social reproduction, work and everyday agency) that constitute the conditions of possibility within which bilateral disputes and labour agreements between Southeast Asian states take shape. We examine three dimensions of migration for domestic work in Southeast Asia in ways that bring together literatures on everyday life and social reproduction. These interconnected yet distinct dimensions are (a) the relationship between strategies to boost remittances and flows of workers from some of the most impoverished parts of Southeast Asia; (b) the centrality of low cost migrant domestic workers to Malaysian middle class ‘success stories’, and (c) the day to day production of ‘good’ worker subjects – a process that is actively and constantly resisted by workers themselves. Through a focus on these dimensions, the article provides important insights into the mechanisms through arenas of everyday life – and the household in particular - are transformed; becoming sites for the ever widening and deepening of the market economy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women household employees -- Malaysia, Migrant labor -- Malaysia | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Globalizations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1474-7731 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 13 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 830-845 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14747731.2016.1155340 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Description: | online first (forthcoming later in 2016) |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 March 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 September 2017 |
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