Migrating out of Poverty SEA

@MigrationRPC's Southeast Asia team (until Sept '17). Labour migration, mostly. Tweets by @KellynnWee.

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

Gender in #Indonesian households shifts as men & women negotiate #migration. Our latest article available for free: https://t.co/XfL4TT4iJN

[Kellynn Wee @KellynnWee]

#CallForPapers - Love’s Labour’s Cost? Asian Migration, Intimate Labour and the Politics of Gender

Abstracts due 15 August. Please help to RT!

#AsiaMigration #IntimateLabour #GenderAndMigration

Details: https://t.co/SVo4odlbXe

[Kellynn Wee @KellynnWee]

The @GFMD_CSD, as an experimental 'global’ space, still functions as an important arena through which challenges to depoliticized #migration rhetoric might slowly trickle.

New article written by @KudaVan, Zaheera Jinnah and me. 50 free downloads: https://t.co/k8ycJTU8FD

[Gallivant @gallivant_sg]

“the [ #maid ] had worked for a German family for 35 years — and didn’t go home for 35 years. The magnitude of that decision was mind-blowing. For me, it was unfathomable how she dealt with that.”
https://t.co/DI24ZXEjAZ

[Migration RPC @MigrationRPC]

Brokers are complicit in perpetuating precarious working conditions and subservient forms of behaviour. But they are still in demand among would-be migrants because they get them to the destination and provide a range of services https://t.co/0oVR3cfT57

[Daniel Naujoks also on @danielnaujoks.bsky.social @danaujoks]

3 major #migration publications by @UNDP (w partners) show that #globaldev is key for migration:
~#Municipalities & People on the Move;
~Migration/Displacement in #UNDAFs (w #GMG, @UNmigration);
~Measuring Policy & Inst. Coherence for Mig&Dev (w @OECD_Centre, @GlobalKNOMAD)
#GCM

[Julie Litchfield 🕷 @JulieL_Sussex]

And this is excellent too https://t.co/JgBf6Es6BC by @sineplambech https://t.co/oftsFCmEQ0

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

AUG BULLETIN: what migrants think about #trafficking & latest #AsiaMigration news https://t.co/5bypdV4iKt

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[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

@cips_indonesia @SEAJunction Photo credit: Adam Cohn https://t.co/1vLMun3HID

[Pamoja @PamojaUK]

If any of you know of any good reading on women's leadership in international civil society movements for health send it my way please.

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

After years of working in Singapore as an truck driver, Patha is seeking a wife. #AsiaMigration https://t.co/lbVe4RBwMx

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

#ICYMI: on what #trafficking "victims" feel about the label, male "trafficked" victims, and life after "return" #AsiaMigration https://t.co/8eN2Ue53hW

[Migration RPC @MigrationRPC]

"The women disagreed: they were not like victims of trafficking in the news." Anthropologist Carol Chan shares... https://t.co/fqr4qCwUgI

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

Carol Chan on how "trafficking" obscures trafficking-like processes in normal labour processes in #Indonesia. cc. @cips_indonesia https://t.co/8eN2UdNsqo

[Migration RPC @MigrationRPC]

"The women disagreed: they were not like victims of trafficking in the news." Anthropologist Carol Chan shares... https://t.co/fqr4qCwUgI

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

Qatar passes law to protect employment rights of domestic workers: days off, annual leave, working hours https://t.co/no3xJdX6YU

[Kellynn Wee @KellynnWee]

THREAD: on how we think that the only pathway to success for poor people is 'education-then-work'--and how young women are reframing that https://t.co/KiAd7q48AN

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

These reimaginings are not 'downward' adjustments: they flourish in spite of the neoliberal bargain of the 'good life'.

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

Young women reimagine their futures to fit w/ new realities, where linear 'development' pathways =/= upward social mobility.

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

They construct their alternative aspirational pathways as temporary deviations from social norms.

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

Young Indo women veer off the normative education-to-work pathway, but this doesn't mean that they suffer from a 'poverty of aspirations'.

[Migrating out of Poverty SEA @ARI_MOOP]

Eti hence decided that she wanted to become financially independent and raise capital on her own to fund further studies.