The Anxieties of Mobility : Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands /
Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic la...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2008]
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Colección: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
44 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Borderland Formations
- 2. The Diluted Enclave
- 3. The Economy of the Night
- 4. Fantasy Island
- 5. Revolving Doors of Dispossession
- 6. Between Stress Beach and Fantasy Island
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author