Indonesian Domestic Workers In Taiwan
Research program: Mobility and Exclusion
This project explores the migration experience of Indonesian domestic workers
in Taiwan in a context of the increasing feminisation and Asianisation of labour migration. Specifically,
this project focuses on the variety of ways in which these Indonesian women seek to maximise their
operational spaces within a tightly controlled labour environment. A variety of strategies are
utilised by Filipina and Indonesian workers in the pursuit of this goal which in turn reflects
the different migration experiences of each group and the different contexts of their employment
as domestic workers. Any essentialist presentation of “the migrant domestic worker”
is argued against in favour of a broader, more grounded understanding of the interplay of forces
which constitute the migration experience for these women.
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