Moving to Serve

Authors

  • Jonathan Kraemer Stockholm University

Abstract

This review article discusses Olivia Killias' ethnography Follow the Maid, which deals with the transnational labor migration of female migrant workers from rural Indonesia to Malaysia and focuses on the ways in which these women are turned into domestic workers. The review engages with the main arguments of the book, its structure, Killias' ethnographic descriptions and the way she relates them to theoretical concepts.

Author Biography

Jonathan Kraemer, Stockholm University

Jonathan Kraemer is currently PhD student in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research concerns transnational labor migration of Indonesian workers to the palm oil fields in Malaysia, with a particular focus on migrant politics, migratory networks and the intersection of exploitation and racialization in the contemporary plantation economy of Southeast Asia. He holds a Master's degree from Heidelberg University and a Bacherlor's degree from the University of Toronto.

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Published

2019-12-22

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Reviews

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