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Understanding the motivations of being Indonesian migrant workers
Cogent Social SciencesThis study aims to delve into migrant workers’ life experiences, focusing on their decisions to leave their families for a long time while pursuing job opportunities abroad. Using a qualitative approach based on phenomenology, this study explores the motives that drive migrant workers from Indonesia to seek employment abroad.
Reddy Anggara +3 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that the growing space for industrial policies, at least in its present form and shape, is unlikely to promote sustainable development in most Global South countries, especially in the smaller economies. This claim builds on those who have thought about structural transformations for and from the Global South throughout ...
Nicolás M. Perrone
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Thai Expectations of the EU's Evolving Security Role: Opportunities and Limitations
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses Thailand's perceptions of the European Union (EU) as an actor in the Indo‐Pacific, based on interviews with 13 government officials and foreign policy influencers conducted under the EU in the Indo‐Pacific (EUIP) Jean Monnet Network. It examines how Thai elites interpret the EU's priorities, geopolitical relevance and the
Natthanan Kunnamas, Heidi Maurer
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Voices of Indonesian Migrant Workers at Home and Abroad
Asian Social Science, 2018 In this paper I discuss interviews conducted with Indonesian village women, concerning their decisions to sojourn abroad for work. The women detail three factors that they believe compel them to seek work abroad: lack of job opportunities, lack of educational and training opportunities and personal desire to experience life outside the confines of ...
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Modern Slavery in Supply Chains: Accounting Perspectives, Evidence and Future Research
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an urgent need to examine how accounting can contribute to addressing modern slavery in supply chains. To achieve this, a review of the existing literature at the intersection of accounting and modern slavery is essential. This article presents a review of accounting research on modern slavery in supply chains.
Suraiyah Akbar +3 more
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Diplomasi Indonesia dan Persoalan Migran Asal Indonesia Pasca Konflik Suriah
Global FocusThe repatriation of Indonesian migrants from Syria in April 2023 reminded us to the repatriation wave of Indonesian migrant from Syria after the country was torn by internal conflict since 2011.
Dian Mutmainah
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Resilience of Indonesian Migrant Workers' Children in Malaysia
KOLOKIUM Jurnal Pendidikan Luar SekolahChildren of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia face various limitations and challenges, such as restricted access to education and healthcare. This study aims to explore the resilience of children of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia using a qualitative approach and a case study method.
Laila Nur Indahyati, Ninik Setiyowati
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio +2 more
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann +2 more
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