Journal article
Migrant Mothers and the Sedentary Child Bias: Constraints on Child Circulation in Indonesia
Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol.18(4), pp.372-388
2017
Abstract
Across the Asia-Pacific region, increasing numbers of women are migrating transnationally for low-skill work while their children remain in home communities, fostered by family or neighbours. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in 2014-15 in Lombok, Indonesia, this paper describes a sedentary child bias within Indonesian policies, and how this bias constrains migrant mothers' choices regarding the care and well-being of their children. Vignettes describing the challenges of caregivers in Lombok families illustrate how the absence of social services, local forms of child fostering and limits on transnational adoption and child mobility together significantly curtail migrant mothers' opportunities to arrange optimal support for their children while working abroad. The sedentary child bias in Indonesia raises issues around limits on the circulation of children that are relevant to the wider Asia and Pacific region, where temporary female labour migration and concomitant mother-child separation is on the rise.
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- Title
- Migrant Mothers and the Sedentary Child Bias: Constraints on Child Circulation in Indonesia
- Authors
- Leslie Butt (Author) - University of Victoria, CanadaHarriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawJessica Ball (Author) - University of Victoria, Canada
- Publication details
- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol.18(4), pp.372-388
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.1080/14442213.2017.1346699
- ISSN
- 1444-2213
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; Sustainability Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450412402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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