Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia Sociology He specialized in the economic

He specialized in the economic history of Southeast Asia and has been a lecturer at the Australian National University

The book recounts the preparations for the punitive 1644 military expedition in alliance with Siam and narrates the course of the expedition

the study vividly illustrates young Thai Muslims’ struggles to reconcile their traditional religious beliefs with the surrounding manifestations of modernization

refused to give his imprimatur to a military dictatorship because he was so doggedly committed to constitutional rule

This survey data is augmented by a wealth of historical and analytical contexts that will make the book an essential item in the library of anyone concerned with issues relating to political behavior at all levels

Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia Sociology He specialized in the economicBy Olivia Killias This finely observed study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that has sent hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from their recruitment by local brokers in a village in upland Central Java, via secluded 'training' camps in Jakarta, employment in gated middle class homes within