Cross-border Mobility: Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocultural category ‘Malay’. In so doing, it raises new research questions that are relevant to the study of Indonesian women’s socioeconomic mobility more generally. Based on fieldwork in Sambas, a region of Indonesia bordering Malaysia, this study documents the ethnocultural consequences of the highly mobile working lives of Sambas Malay women. Emphasising the significance of territorial borders in women’s working lives, this study highlights how women’s border location not only facilitates cross-border pathways of international labour migration and trade, but also generates feelings of peripherality that inform women’s imaginative construction of other, nonterritorial borders that need to be crossed. Shaped by social class, gender, and the economic and cultural possibilities of political decentralization, the study identifies three borderscopes that orient women’s work-related mobility and create diverse outcomes for the ethnocultural category 'Sambas Malay'.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Women, Mobility, and Malayness at the Border
- Mobility and Malayness
- Indonesian women’s mobility
- Women’s borderscopes of mobility
- Outline of the book
- 2. Sambas as Place, Culture, and Identity
- Economy, demography, and Malay identifications
- Economic transformations
- Decentralisation
- Conclusion
- 3. Traversing the Territorial Border for Work
- Profile of village women
- Border zone labour mobilities
- Village women on Sambas Malay identity, adat, and culture
- Socio-cultural implications of women’s territorial borderscope
- Kinship and rurality: concluding comments on village women’s territorial borderscope
- 4. Public Sector Women Challenging the Borders of Marginality
- Competent and committed
- Women and the socioeconomic development of Sambas
- Reforming Sambas Malay Culture
- Informal influences: Islamic guidance and education
- The greater good: concluding comments on public sector women’s borderscope of marginality
- 5. NGO Women Contesting the Borders of Marginality
- Resolute and grounded
- Women’s economic empowerment
- Women’s political empowerment
- Informal influences: embodying a modern Sambas Malay woman
- Cosmopolitan trustees: concluding comments on NGO women’sborderscope of marginality
- 6. Creating a Translocal Malay Borderscope
- On the topic of Sambas Malay culture
- Zikir Maulud: characterising a Sambas Malay–Muslim regency
- Dancing across borders
- Songket’s expanding commercial horizons
- Refashioning the perennial: concluding comments on women’s translocal Malay borderscope
- 7. Mobility and the Reconstitution of Gender
- Soft sequestration and mobility
- Kinship and mobility
- Gender segregation and mobility
- Mobility, autonomy, and women’s status
- 8. Conclusion
- Revisiting borderscopes and borders
- The significance of women and Malayness
- Malayness and mobility—a final word
- Glossary of Selected Foreign Words
- Appendix 1
- References
- List of Images and Tables
- Image 1.1 Map of Sambas Regency
- Image 4.1 ‘Exercise your right to vote’
- Image 4.2 Ajung during siak ritual
- Image 6.1 Zikir Maulud Association evening
- Table 3.1 Women’s education levels in the seven villages
- Table 3.2 Labour outmigration (number and percentage) in seven villages
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