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dc.contributor.authorElias, Juanita
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:24:01Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:24:01Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-04-10T05:07:35Z
dc.identifier.issn1461-6742
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14616742.2012.755835
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/58187
dc.description.abstractIn 2009, following numerous high profile abuse cases, the Indonesian government placed a moratorium on its citizens taking up employment in Malaysia as domestic workers. From the perspective of feminist International Relations, the emergence of migrant domestic work as a foreign policy concern between these two states is significant - exposing a relationship between foreign policy and the webs of transnationalized social relations of reproduction that underpin the development prospects of middle to low income states. In this article I utilize the example of the Malaysia-Indonesia dispute in order to develop some tentative suggestions concerning the possibility of integrating an analysis of transnational social relations of reproduction into foreign policy analyses. The article initially overviews how the dispute is widely understood in relation to Indonesia's turn to a more democratic foreign policy. The inadequacy of such a reading is explored further. The article suggests that the above-mentioned dispute should rather be understood in relation to the specific configurations of productive-reproductive relations that underpin migratory flows and the role of Indonesia and Malaysia as 'regulatory' states involved in the establishment of return-migration systems in which women migrants are viewed as economic commodities and policed via a range of state-sanctioned practices (including commitments to anti-trafficking).
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom391
dc.relation.ispartofpageto410
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Feminist Journal of Politics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume15
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Studies in Human Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160699
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1699
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleForeign Policy and the Domestic Worker: The Malaysia-Indonesia domestic worker dispute
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorElias, Juanita M.


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