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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore: strategies for increasing income and building up savings
Yvonne Bachsubject
IndonesianLabour economicsOrder (business)Labor migrationlanguageMigrant domestic workersBusinesslanguage.human_languagedescription
The following essay studies the strategies and practices applied by Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore in order to accumulate money. This is done by presenting the background situation, especially regarding female labor migration from Indonesia to other countries, and examining the specific income conditions experienced by domestic workers in Singapore. The particular focus of this essay is on gaining a deeper understanding of how the women act within a restrictive framework, i.e. identifying their legal and illegal strategies for increasing their regular income and their “negative” income strategies and transnational strategies for building up savings.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-02 | Transnational Social Review |