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This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country. It investigates their motivations for leaving India and choosing Germany as an immigration destination. Grappling with the stories of tech workers fleeing the pandemic, activists fleeing the witch hunting of the government, women escaping gender(ed) violence and queer people seeking freedom, this book uses reflexivity as an analytical tool. Investigation of their transcultural practices also reveals a general intent among Indians to create homes in Germany, despite several challenges to such efforts, including structural and everyday symbolic racism.
 

Zitation: Datta, Amrita (2023). Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany. Why Move? Cham, Springer International Publishing; Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.

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Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to the largest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia exists on the periphery of an Islamic world centered around the Arabian Peninsula. Mirjam Lücking approaches the problem of interpreting the current conservative turn in Indonesian Islam by considering the ways personal relationships, public discourse, and matters of religious self-understanding guide two groups of Indonesians who actually travel to the Arabian Peninsula—labor migrants and Mecca pilgrims—in becoming physically mobile and making their mobility meaningful. This concept, which Lücking calls "guided mobility," reveals that changes in Indonesian Islamic traditions are grounded in domestic social constellations and calls claims of outward Arab influence in Indonesia into question. With three levels of comparison (urban and rural areas, Madura and Central Java, and migrants and pilgrims), this ethnographic case study foregrounds how different regional and socioeconomic contexts determine Indonesians' various engagements with the Arab world.

Citation: Lücking, Mirjam. 2020. Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications. Cornell University Press.
 

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The present issue of ASEAS features a focus on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility and migration in and between Southeast Asian countries, assessing past, current, and future trends as well as its cultural, social, economic, ecological, and political implications. As many other regions in the world, Southeast Asian countries have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although most countries managed to cope relatively well with the first wave in 2020, subsequent waves saw rising death tolls and immense pressures on the region’s health and welfare systems. At the same time, travel restrictions and local as well as national lockdowns affected migrant populations disproportionally as hundreds of thousands got stuck in either their countries of origin or destination countries with little or no alternative means of making a living. This special issue presents six empirically grounded case studies (four current research and two research workshop articles) that address the COVID-19-migration/mobility nexus in Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Australia. Articles outside this special issue focus address topics of hazard related vulnerability and coping strategies in the Philippines as well as the media consumption/travel motivation nexus in the Philippines regarding Thailand.

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The Freedom Fund commissioned a study with the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) at the University of Sydney in late 2022 aimed at providing insights and recommendations to bolster the efforts of partners working in Indonesia’s seafood sector. The study outlines labour organising models in Indonesia, focusing on informal and/or migrant workers, and identifies promising approaches for worker mobilisation adaptable to the seafood sector. It also examines the existing scope of work of the partners to explore new approaches for mobilisation and recommends collaborative approaches to strengthen programmatic impacts. In the next phase of the research, the findings will guide partners and facilitate ongoing adaptations and knowledge sharing in specific interventions and in the wider labour rights movement.

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Through a case study of the fisheries sector, this situation and gap analysis aims to identify conformities and gaps in Indonesia’s existing laws, policies and programmes, along with their enforcement mechanisms, with PO29 and its accompanying recommendation. The analysis seeks to determine the extent to which Indonesia’s current legal and regulatory mechanisms provide a foundation for eliminating forced labour. In addition, it assesses the extent to which ratification of PO29 would support, strengthen or supplement Indonesia’s current regulatory mechanisms.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam 2023. “Introductory Essay. At Home and Afar: Malay-Indonesian Cosmopolitan Muslim Identities in Contemporary and Historical Mobility.” International Journal of Islam in Asia. Vol. 2 (2/2021): 99–11.

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Travel following religious aims has a long tradition in the Indonesian-Malay Archipelago. Yet mass overseas religious tourism is a relatively recent phenomenon among people in today’s Indonesia. A variety of travel agencies advertise pilgrimage package tours to notable destinations like Mecca and Medina but also to other destinations in the Middle East, Europe, East Asia, and Central Asia. An analytical focus on various images in this context, including their creation and distribution, reveals patterns of prestigious cosmopolitan middle-class imagery among Muslim and Christian Indonesians in the field of religious tourism. This imagery is similar across different religious affiliations and particularly vibrant in online social media. The imagery challenges perceptions of interreligious divisions and hegemonic mappings of the world, ultimately centralizing the local social environment of people and exhibiting national Indonesian pride.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam 2023. “Cosmopolitan Imagery: Prestigious Connections to the World in Contemporary Muslim and Christian Indonesian Pilgrimage Pictures.” International Journal of Islam in Asia. Vol. 2 (2/2021): 203–231.

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Historically, the processes in place to govern the recruitment and contracting of Indonesian migrant fishers have fostered situations of labor abuse and exploitation. The Indonesian government has introduced a new regulatory framework designed to meet international expectations that it creates rules and systems for recruiting migrant fishers in its territory. This article analyzes the state of play immediately before this new regulatory framework was operationalized, generating insights into practices around recruitment and contracting, and providing a baseline for future analysis of the new framework’s impact.

Zitation: Wayne Palmer, Michele Ford and Benni Hasbiyalloh. 2023. Regulating recruitment and contracting of migrant fishers from Indonesia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.DOI: 10.1177/01171968231210760.

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This paper discusses the understudied situation of legally-resident migrants and their (in)ability to access employment rights that are otherwise available to Indonesians. In our analysis of the relevant institutional architecture and processes, we approach the issue of integration from a regulatory perspective. We used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how migrants as high-income workers interface with the labor dispute resolution system in Indonesia. Our findings demonstrate the mal-integrated nature of Indonesia’s regulatory system in relation to migration and employment and its consequences for migrant workers’ ability to lodge grievances and avail themselves of their employment rights.

Zitation: Palmer, Wayne & Nicola Piper, 2023: Regulatory (Mal)Integration: Its Implications for Migrant Workers’ Ability to Access Employment Rights in Indonesia, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 21 (2): 203-216, DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2022.2142349.

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This article intervenes in the fields of migration and ageing studies by examining complex social experiences and local manifestations of ageing and mobility in regions of the world that remain at the margins of such debates. Specifically, it foregrounds groups that are less visible in existent scholarly and policy work: namely, ageing adults from low- and middle-income regions of the world moving across regions of the South, and to places in the North. In doing so, the article critically reflects and approaches ‘South’ and ‘North’ not as essentialised or discrete categories, but as shifting, relational categories that encompass much diversity and varying marginalities. The article introduces a set of contributions that qualitatively investigate translocal intersections of ageing and migration across Central Africa, South, East and Southeast Asia, and Latin America, and in some cases in connection to places in the North. The collection advances debates on the ageing-migration nexus with a southern focus by examining three key themes that display geographical unevenness and social diversity: (Im)mobilities of ageing, retirement and kinship strategies in light of restrictive mobility and citizenship regimes; multidirectionality of care across borders and generations; and the temporalities and spatialities of home, belonging, and displacement.

Zitation: Sampaio, D., & Amrith, M. (2023). Southern reconfigurations of the ageing-migration nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(4), 927-944. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2115624.

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Eating good Asian food is important to Indonesians who travel in religious package tours to Jerusalem. Those Indonesians who travel to Jerusalem are mainly members of Indonesia’s Christian minority of around 26 million people. Only recently Jerusalem has also become a popular destination among the Muslim majority of Indonesia. Among Israelis and Palestinians who work in the tourism industry, Indonesians are known for their culinary preferences. They make sure that their customers will be satisfied with plain white rice and spicy Asian dishes. New demands for halal and kosher food challenge existing structures in the tourism sector in Jerusalem and reveal the shifting politics of eating religiously in Indonesia. Culinary controversies concern claims of a joint Indonesian culinary heritage in contrast to exclusively Muslim (and to some extent Christian) food and food spaces. Indonesians engage with global lines of conflict and bring their ideas of halal and kosher to tourist spaces in the Middle East. However, the question of taste lastly challenges the political narratives.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam. 2022. “‘Food unites us… not anymore!?’ Indonesian pilgrims eating kosher and halal in Jerusalem.” Food, Culture and Society. Vol. 25 (4):699-711.

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With transnational mobility on the rise, care is today increasingly carried out across borders, which profoundly impacts the wellbeing of migrants and their families. Drawing on two in-depth qualitative studies with Brazilian migrants in the United States, this article extends discussions on transnational care circulation by exploring two understudied dimensions in transnational care arrangements: legal status and sibling relationships. These two dimensions highlight the importance of legal (undocumented) status and larger family networks, besides the traditional aging parent-adult child dyad, in transnational care practices, family cohesion and wellbeing. The article's findings are two-fold. First, it shows that undocumented siblings experience long-term psychosocial stress resulting from the legal impossibility of their return visits and to make up for that, they provide emotional forms of care from a distance. Second, it reveals a gendered and sexualized component to care provision within family and sibling relationships, wherein women and gay siblings are typically expected, almost as a ‘naturalized’ role, to take on care responsibilities. This is the case regardless of being a migrant or non-migrant, documented or undocumented sibling.

Zitation: Sampaio, D., & R. F. Carvalho, 2022: Transnational families, care and wellbeing: The role of legal status and sibling relationships across borders. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 3, 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2022.100097.

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People smuggling is commonly associated with unidirectional movement, that is, procuring entrance from underpriviledged origin and transit countries to more desirable destinations that offer gainful employment and/or safety from human rights abuses. Yet, as we expose here, under certain circumstances migrants also make use of smugglers to return to their home countries. To examine this phenomenon more closely and explore why and under what conditions migrants seek out the services of smugglers in order to return from Malaysia to Indonesia, we have analysed 13 court verdicts and conducted eight interviews with law enforcement personnel responsible for arresting facilitators of unauthorised return migration (‘smugglers’). Our findings show that return smuggling results predominantly from the inadequacy of options for authorised return, which are costly, time-consuming and have punitive elements. Based on these findings we propose a theoretical clustering along four different modes of return. By disentangling the causes that triggered the evolution of facilitated but unauthorised returns we offer new insights into ongoing debates concerning return migration and ‘irregular’ migration. The multi-directional nature of smuggling services between Malaysia and Indonesia thus demands that we take a fresh look at the facilitation–authorisation nexus, particularly the modalities and infrastructures accessible for returning migrants.

Zitation: Antje Missbach and Wayne Palmer. 2022. Facilitated but unauthorised return: the role of smugglers in return migration and clandestine border crossings between Malaysia and Indonesia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2156329.

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This paper intends to move beyond the common knowledge of how pandemic restricts mobility at large and provokes us to think about those for whom mobility restriction was a way of life much before the coronavirus arrived. Looking at shadow pandemic of gender-based mobility restrictions of women and non-male actors in conservative societies in South Asia, in this paper I argue that social deconstruction of “immobility” is embedded in the process of gendering the pandemic. Drawing from interviews conducted on the Indian immigrants in Germany over a year during and after the global lock down, this paper explores how covid-induced immobility mimics an already established framework of coerced immobility based on gender that acts as a motivation of migration for women and non-male actors at some level. Referring to Ayelet Shachar’s idea of shifting borders, I locate the moral borders at home as a crucial competitor of physical borders of the barbed wire, that often provokes women and non-male actors to take the leap of faith for survival and better livelihood.

Zitation: Datta, A., 2022: Mobility as survival and freedom: Pandemic, Immobility and its implications for women and queer migrants. Migration Letters 19(6): 791 – 799.

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The recruitment and deployment of migrant fishers in distant waters (DW) fisheries has emerged as a significant site for the production of unfree labor relations. We trace the recruitment and deployment geographies of migrant fishers from the Philippines to the vessel, conceptualizing the time-spaces of the journey as a significant site for producing unfree labor. We argue that labor brokerage not only establishes the conditions of the labor contract and financialization of migration in the migrants’ home country but is also an ongoing process that intensifies unfreedom through the journey to deployment across multiple sites and temporalities. We conceptualize this movement into exploitative laboring situations as “funnels of unfreedom.” The production of unfreedom through the geographies of recruitment, harboring, and transportation to the destination is one strategy by which DW fleets can reduce costs. The relevance of this discussion extends to other sectors where complex labor brokerage geographies constrain migrant worker choices and fortify unfreedom in labor relations.

Zitation: Sallie Yea, Christina Stringer and Wayne Palmer. 2022. Funnels of Unfreedom: Time-Spaces of Recruitment and (Im)Mobility in the Trajectories of Trafficked Migrant Workers. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

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This article introduces two case studies of underage transporters from Indonesia, who brought asylum seekers to Australia by boat and thus were convicted and jailed for the crime of people smuggling. In light of the hyper-politicised issue of people smuggling and the need to find punishable perpetrators, transporters have become the main target of anti-people-smuggling law enforcement. Both transporters came from poor families and started working early on in their lives, which also involved their deceptive recruitment into people-smuggling networks. But the outcome of their prosecutions differs substantially, not least, as one of them was convicted in an Australian court and the other in Indonesia. In this article, we problematise the culpability of underage smugglers and argue for more lenient treatment by law-enforcement authoritie

Zitation: Antje Missbach and Wayne Palmer. 2022. Scapegoating juvenile ‘people smugglers’ from Indonesia: Poverty, crime, and punishment. Pacific Geographies. 57(February): 4-10. 

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Employment relations systems generally fail to enforce all legal rights of migrant workers. This article illustrates a broader approach to the way labour migration is regulated in practice, using the example of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. Political economists have shown that the reality of low-wage migration is either ‘more rights, less access’ or ‘fewer rights, greater access’ in terms of rights enforcement systems. Attention to the effectiveness of such mechanisms and processes reveals another feature of regulation: the divergence of theory from practice. Much scholarly attention has been paid to rights, and this analysis, in which enforcement of those rights is sought, contributes to the literature with a frequently-occurring example of how such regulatory practices effectively restrict migrant rights. The article concludes by arguing that regulation uses employers as a further ‘mechanism of control’ to determine the actual quantity and quality of migrant workers’ employment rights regardless of what is stipulated in the law.

Zitation: Wayne Palmer and Carol Tan. 2022. I’m keeping my baby: Migrant domestic worker rights at the intersection of labour and immigration laws. Trans: Trans-Regional and National Studies of Southeast Asia. DOI 10.1017/trn.2022.1.

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Scholars have devoted insufficient attention to Indonesia's foreign policy on migrant worker protection, especially as mobilized in multilateral institutions. This article addresses such knowledge gaps by analyzing why Indonesia has, for almost two decades, persistently promoted the United Nations Migrant Worker Convention in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) despite constant pushback from migrant-receiving countries. It argues that Indonesia's persistence is driven by its locally constituted meaning of migrant worker rights. In particular, this article advances the critical norms approach in international relations to demonstrate that its interpretation is influenced by "Indonesia's normative baggage," or past experiences with labour migration that have too frequently dealt with the exploitation of Indonesian citizens abroad. This normative baggage in turn shapes the country's diplomacy and promotion of convention standards deemed appropriate for safeguarding Indonesian migrants in ASEAN. In presenting the argument, this article contributes to the study of labour migration by scrutinizing Indonesia's foreign policy on migrant protection and unpacking norm interpretation processes that are necessary in international negotiations.

Zitation: Ruji Auethavornpipat and Wayne Palmer. 2022. Indonesia’s Promotion of UN Migrant Protection Norms in ASEAN. Pacific Affairs. 95(1): 75-92.

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In São Paolo's ancient center, squats provide protective spaces to thousands of residents who cannot or do not want to access the formal and highly gentrified housing market. At the same time, these formerly abandoned buildings are also a site of the political struggle and claim the right to decent communal living. This paper traces the motives and aspirations of different types of squatters, such as activists, internal and international migrants as well as refugees. Through the notion of "aspirational anxieties" it concentrates on the uncomfortable emergence and recognition of power asymmetries inherent in the affective dimensions of solidarian future-making. By showing how dis- and emplacement are experienced by actors with contrasting and eventually irreconcilable biographical experiences, this paper warns against a normative understanding of the notion of displacement.

Zitation: Drotbohm. Heike 2021: “Not a cozy dwelling”: Exploring Aspirational Anxieties and the Politics of Displacement in São Paulo’s Squats. Humanity. An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. Vol. 12 (3): 354-367.

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In this article, we draw on the volatile complexity of African migrant trajectories in Central America to broaden the scope of transnational scholarship. These trajectories are characterised by mobilities as well as immobilities, taking shape in particular local contexts. By focusing on the interplays between displacement and emplacement that are part of these trajectories, we aim to increase our understanding of the extent to which migrants still ‘on the move’ experience both temporal embeddedness and cross-border connectedness, thereby acknowledging and unravelling transnational lives as they ‘touch the ground’ en route. To do so, we build on long-standing scholarly commitments in Central and South America and recent field research in Costa Rica. We go into selected empirical cases to discuss the dynamics of travelling, dwelling and travelling again as part of African migrant trajectories across Central America. We then explore the value of a ‘shifting’ transnational social field perspective and indicate some challenges for future trajectory research.

Zitation: Drotbohm, Heike & Nanneke Winters 2021: A shifting yet grounded transnational social field: interplays of displacement and emplacement in African migration trajectories across Central America. Population, Space and Place, Vol. 29 (5), Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2421
 

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Studies on tourism and pilgrimage show that spatial mobility, including transregional travel, mostly confirms and strengthens tourists’ and pilgrims’ social identities and symbolic boundaries between Self and Other. However, in guided religious package tours from Indonesia to Israel and Palestine, experiences with spatial boundaries do affect the Muslim and Christian pilgrims, adding more nuances to socio-cultural boundary-making. This complex making and breaching of boundaries relates to inner-Indonesian religious dynamics. Among both Muslim and Christian Indonesians, references to the Middle East express not only transregional solidarity but also multifarious orientations in inter and intra-religious relations within Indonesia. Among Indonesian Muslims, some orthodox Muslims’ orientations towards the Middle East as the birthplace of Islam are contested but also combined with indigenous Islamic traditions. Similar to these intra-Muslim frictions, members of Indonesia's Christian minority experience fissures in the expressions of local and global Christian identities. This article analyses how symbolic, social, and spatial boundaries are maintained and breached in transregional tourism from Indonesia to the Middle East.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam. 2021. “Breaching boundaries in Muslim and Christian transregional tourism from Indonesia to Israel and Palestine.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia. 1-16.

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While existing work on transnational aging and care has largely focused on the substance of transnational communication and what is being said, this article examines what is being ‘silenced’ during transnational exchange. I argue that to better understand aging and intergenerational caregiving we need to pay careful attention to what is not being said during transnational contacts, suggesting that silence and ‘communication voids’ are often formulated and enacted as a care practice. Drawing on ethnographic research with Brazilian migrants in the United States whose aging parents live in Brazil, I illustrate how migrants curate their lives abroad and sieve their lived experiences as an act of care for their aging parents back home. In so doing, I reveal the significance of faith as a coping strategy in the process of silencing and concealing emotions and as a means to fight loneliness, cope with adversity, and protect family exchanges.

Zitation: Sampaio, D., 2020: Caring by silence: How (un)documented Brazilian migrants enact silence as a care practice for aging parents. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 18(3), 281-300. DOI: 10.1080/15350770.2020.1787038.
 

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The Limits of Solidarity. Technologies of Government in Times of CoronaThis paper uses the COVID-19 pandemic to reflect on the relationship between gov-ernance and solidarity. It considers how a social model based on self-regulating in-dividuals has been complemented by a new form of state dirigisme reliant on evo-cations of solidarity. However, this configuration may be approaching the limits of itsviability. Given that governance relies on the robust internalization and execution ofboth care and control and on an ethos of renunciation, especially among the middleand upper classes, the paper proposes the need for analyses that better incorporateconcepts of social inequality.

Zitation: Drotbohm, Heike & Sven Reichardt 2020: Die Grenzen der Solidarität. Regierungstechniken in Zeiten von Corona. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Vol. 46 (3): 404-415.
 

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The introduction to the book outlines the idea that postcolonial debates and approaches are an ongoing process towards a new form of anthropology. Consequently the aim of the anthology is defined as the attempts to expand, broaden, enrich and revise current debates and approaches in order to contribute from different perspectives and drawing on different empirical material and research sites for such a transformation. The three focal points of the book (Methodologies in Postcolonial Anthropology; Glocalized Religions, Revitalized Spirituality and Plural Narratives of Modernity; and Globalisation, Migration and Representation) are briefly discussed in this introduction, and the individual contributions are located in the broader debates and contexts.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo. 2023: “Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology – Introduction”, In Tandem – Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology, edited by Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. pp: 1-24.

Portraits of the self, or selfies, have become a universal form of self-representation and interaction in digital social media. This article presents examples of ‘Indonesian selfie tourism,’ discussing both domestic and international contexts. Similar to the cultural theme parks studied by Judith Schlehe, in recent years, several new parks have opened their gates to visitors in Indonesia under the label ‘wisata selfie’—selfie tourism. At the same time, Indonesians who can afford overseas travels, for instance religious package tours to the Middle East, document their journeys and take visual evidence of their presence at holy sites abroad. We analyse the ways in which the creation of images of a cosmopolitan self inspires socio-cultural plurality, intercultural encounters, and inclusion.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam; Mayasari, Nuki. 2023: “Indonesian Selfie Tourism Abroad and at Home”, In Tandem – Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology, edited by Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. pp: 209-227.

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To care about and for others—that is other people, collectivities, plants, animals, or the climate—is a mundane and ubiquitous act. At some point in life, almost every human being needs to be cared for, encounters care, and eventually provides care. In anthropology, the critical notion of care provides an analytic tool for seriously considering life’s contingencies and for understanding the ways that people ascribe meaning to different kind of acts, attitudes, and values. This chapter argues that the concept’s normative dimension forms part of a cultural binarism that hierarchizes the world according to differently valued spheres of existence. Concentrating on this normativity as inherent to the notion, the chapter distinguishes three complementary empirical fields: care as (globalized) social reproduction, care as institutionalized asymmetry, and care beyond human exceptionalism. It becomes clear that care oscillates between two different perspectives, producing a particular tension. On the one hand, the care concept features a protective and conservative dimension that is congruent with the past. On the other hand, the concept incorporates a transformational dimension through its notions of development, progress, and improvement. To move beyond our own (potentially or inevitably) academic, Eurocentric, or human-centric understanding of the notion, this essay suggests moving “care beyond repair.” We can do so, first, by asking what role research plays in this differentiating ethics and, second, by identifying perspectives and positionalities that, at first glance, appear indistinct or inarticulate and hence do not confirm already-familiar categories of evaluation and distinction. Seen this way, care beyond repair draws attention to the making and unmaking of human existence.

Zitation: Drotbohm, Heike 2022: Care beyond Repair. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Shopping is an important aspect in Indonesian Muslim and Christian pilgrimages to Israel and the West Bank. This chapter analyzes women’s central role in defining social values through shopping activities and shopping discourses. In line with the Mecca pilgrimage boom, many travel agencies in Indonesia offer alternative ḥalāl travel packages. Besides Mecca, another highly popular destination in the growing ḥalāl tourism industry is Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Strikingly, the Muslim package tours to Jerusalem resemble Christian ‘Holy Land Tours’ to Israel, Palestinian Territories, Jordan and Egypt, which are popular among Indonesia’s Christian minority of 24 million people. While Christian and Muslim Indonesians’ itineraries might overlap, their travel narratives often compete and back home their lives are increasingly separated. However, when it comes to purchases of souvenirs and gifts, Christian as well as Muslim Indonesian women appear to have a similar taste. Yet, the fact that they sometimes buy the exact same products, most prominently Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics, does not mean that they feel united through these commonalities in taste. In contrast, many pilgrims frame their souvenir purchases and charity activities in relation to a specific moral discourse within their religious community. This reveals inter- and inner-religious dynamics among Indonesians.

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Citation: Lücking, Mirjam. 2020. “Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetics and Charity for Palestinian Children: Indonesian Women’s Shopping Activities on Pilgrimages to Jerusalem,” Reconfiguring Muslim Pilgrimage through the Lens of Women’s New Mobilities, edited by Buitelaar, Marjo; Stephan-Emmrich, Manja; Thimm, Viola. London: Routledge. pp: 91-110.

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Zitation: Wayne Palmer and Nicola Piper. 2022. Migrant workers needed to fill critical skills gaps in Indonesia. East Asia Forum, 15 December. Available at https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/12/15/migrant-workers-needed-to-fill-critical-skill-gaps-in-indonesia/.

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Zitation: Wayne Palmer and Benni Yusriza. 2022. The government now has a much-needed regulation on the recruitment of migrant fishers from Indonesia. What next? The Conversation, 1 July. Available at https://theconversation.com/the-government-now-has-a-much-needed-regulation-on-the-recruitment-of-migrant-fishers-from-indonesia-what-next-181946.
 

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Zitation: Ulrike Krause (2020), Die Folgen von COVID-19 für Flucht und Geflüchtete – Eine neue Reihe auf dem FluchtforschungsBlog, FluchtforschungsBlog, 30.05.2020.

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected refugees and their protection? To respond to this question, we conducted a study using a qualitative questionnaire in six countries in East Africa, Southern Africa and West Africa, namely Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In this paper, we explore the information provided by the 90 respondents and focus on three main areas. We first address vulnerable groups and the new, additional and prolonged challenges, as well as potential tensions among refugees and between refugees and host communities due to the pandemic. We then turn to refugee protection by regional, state and humanitarian actors and the influence of donors during the pandemic, showing that aid has been strongly limited. Moreover, we argue in the third part of the paper that refugees represent important actors; refugee-led community-based responses are highly relevant for the people across the six countries for delivering material and immaterial assistance and also mitigating tensions and contributing to peaceful environments.

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Zitation: Segadlo, Nadine, Krause, Ulrike, Zanker, Franzisca, Edler, Hannah (2021), '‘Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees and their protection in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe', ABI Working Papers, No. 18.

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The Kenyan Ministry of Interior recently urged international agencies to close down the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya, once again. This comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has already placed great burdens on the lives and livelihoods of refugees and intensified uncertainties. To better understand how the pandemic has affected refugees in Kenya, this paper discusses results from a recent qualitative questionnaire on refugee protection in light of COVID-19. We find that the pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges, and partly created new ones. Economic issues and the anxiety that accompanies them have intensified due to lockdowns, restricted movements and business closures. Aid was scaled down and funding cuts further complicated conditions. Although refugees are noted to be important actors in responding to the pandemic, resulting difficulties partly contribute to tensions among refugees, as well as between refugee and host communities. Refugees report an increase in the risks of violence as well as being stigmatized as carriers of the virus, in addition to continued competition over resources with host communities. Thus, risks for refugees would certainly intensify if the camps were to be closed. No matter how things develop further, the safety and representation of refugees should be at the front and center of any possible developments.

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Zitation: Segadlo, Nadine/Krause, Ulrike/Zanker, Franzisca/Edler, Hannah (2021): “Everyone was overwhelmed by the fears and the panic of the unknown disease”. Kenyan Refugee Protection and the COVID-19 Pandemic. IMIS Working Paper 10, Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) der Universität Osnabrück. Osnabrück: IMIS.