Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
Volume 15, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 326-343

Who Migrates? Tracking Gendered Access to Migration Within Households “In Flux” Across Time (Article)

Khoo C.Y.* , Platt M. , Yeoh B.S.A.
  • a Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • b Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • c Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

In Indonesia, traditional gender ideals tend to depict men as legitimate migrants while women who move are deemed “out of place.” This male migrant-as-breadwinner household arrangement has been complicated in the past 30 years by gendered migration systems and practices in Asia that favor women. Drawing upon a household survey (N = 1,203) and in-depth interviews (N = 55), we use “time tracks” (Robertson, 2014) to interrogate gendered dynamics within the household “in flux” (Huijsmans, 2014). Foregrounding active negotiations within migrant households, we illustrate the continuously changing gender relations as they interact with, and respond to, the gendered migration systems and practices over time. © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Author Keywords

Temporalities gendered decision making Labor migration Indonesia Feminization of migration gender relations

Index Keywords

labor migration gender relations Indonesia Feminization decision making
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028689274&doi=10.1080%2f15562948.2017.1283456&partnerID=40&md5=4c5496cc2be27d94049928584d6915bd
DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2017.1283456
ISSN: 15562948
Cited by: 4
Original Language: English