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. Export processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vil...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2009.
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Series: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Borderland formations
- The diluted enclave
- The economy of the night
- Fantasy island
- Revolving doors of dispossession
- Between stress beach and fantasy island.