Programme
| Day 1 - 30 June (Tuesday) | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Welcome & opening remarks |
| 09:30 – 11:15 |
Keynote 1 Film screening “Les Mairuuwas” Chairperson : Dorte Thorsen Trond Waage Visual Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway |
| 11:15 – 11:30 |
Tea break |
| Session 1 | |
| 11:30 – 13:15 |
Gender dynamics in labour markets - I Chairperson : Tsun-Ling Lee |
| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Mariama Awumbila, Joseph Teye & Joseph Yaro Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana Gendered Dynamics of Migrant Domestic Work in Accra, Ghana |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Dang, Thao Thi Thanh and Paul Henman University of Queensland, Australia The Gendered Lived Work Experiences of Young Rural-Urban Migrants in Hanoi |
| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Stanford Mahati Centre for Social Science and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa Gendered Representations of Zimbabwean Unaccompanied Young Female Migrants Negotiating for Livelihood in a South African Border Town |
| 12:30 – 12: 45 |
Discussant : Hania Zlotnik |
| 12:45 – 13:15 |
Questions & discussion |
| 13:15 – 14:15 |
Lunch |
| Session 2 | |
| 14:15 – 16:00 |
Gender dynamics in labour markets - II Chairperson : Michiel Baas |
| 14:15 - 14:35 |
Binitha V Thampi & Banti Deori Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India ‘Aesthetic Labour’ in the Emerging Labour market: A Case Study on Female Labour Migrants from North Eastern India to the Metropolitan Cities of Chennai and Bangalore, India |
| 14:35 – 14:55 |
Panchali Ray School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Shaping the Profession: The Politics of Migration and Care-Giving in Contemporary Kolkata |
| 14:55 – 15:15 |
Susanne Y P Choi The Chinese University of Hong Kong Migration, Service Work and Masculinity in Post-Socialist China |
| 15:15 – 15:30 |
Discussant : Linda Oucho |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Questions & Comments |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |
Tea break |
| Session 3 | |
| 16:30 – 18:15 |
Labour and mobility regimes Chairperson : Malini Sur |
| 16:30 – 16:50 |
Pamungkas A. Dewanto Department of International Relations, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia Structural Exploitation of Indonesian Female Migrant Worker: A home country’s perspective |
| 16:50 – 17:10 |
Katharine Jones Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK For a Fee: the business of recruiting female domestic workers from South Asia into private households in Jordan and Lebanon |
| 17:10 – 17:30 |
Maria Platt, Grace Baey, Brenda SA Yeoh, Choon Yen Khoo & Theodora Lam, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Gendered labour migration regimes in Singapore: Debt, precarity and strategy among male and female temporary labour migrants |
| 17:30 – 17:45 |
Discussant : Priya Deshingkar |
| 17:45 – 18:15 |
Questions & Comments |
| Day 2 - 1 July (Wednesday) | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:45 |
Keynote 2 Chairperson : Brenda SA Yeoh Deirdre McKay Social Geography and Environmental Politics, Keele University |
| 10:45 – 11:15 |
Tea break |
| Session 4 | |
| 11:15 – 13:00 |
Expectations and moralities surrounding remittances I Chairperson : Bernardo Brown |
| 11:15 – 11:35 |
Patience Mutopo, Vupenyu Dzingirai & Loren Landau, University of Zimbabwe, and ACMS, South Africa. An Analysis of the Gendered Patterns of Migration in Zimbabwe: The Case of Chivi, Hurungwe and Gwanda Districts |
| 11:35 – 11:55 |
Rozana Rashid University of Dhaka and RMMRU, Bangladesh. Gendered Practices and Expectations of Remittances: A Case Study of Bangladesh |
| 11:55 – 12:15 |
Dhiman Das Asia Research Institute, Singapore. Male Migration and its Implication on Child Educational Inputs in India |
| 12:15 – 12:30 |
Discussant : Sallie Yea |
| 12:30 – 13:00 |
Questions & Comments |
| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 5 | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Expectations and moralities surrounding remittances II Chairperson : Mila Arlini |
| 14:00 – 14:20 |
Ishret Binte Wahid & Mohammed Kamruzzaman Gender Justice and Diversity, BRAC, Bangladesh Migration, Muslim Women and Social Reproduction of Gender Inequality |
| 14:20 – 14:40 |
Matthew Maycock University of Glasgow, UK Masculinities, Remittances and Failure, narratives from far-west Nepal |
| 14:40 – 14:55 |
Discussant : Susanne Choi |
| 14:55 – 15:30 |
Questions & comments |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Tea break |
| Session 6 | |
| 16:00 – 18:00 |
Images of gender, migration and development Chairperson : Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario Media clips & documentary |
| 16:00 – 16:20 |
Debika Chatterjee & Pooja Sanghavi Mumbai Mobile Creches Against the Odds |
| 16:20 – 16:40 |
Dipesh Kharel University of Tokyo, Japan After Ram Left Home: Visual Ethnography of the Nepali migration to Japan |
| 16:40 – 17:00 |
Tyas Retno Wulan & Sri Wijayanti Center of Research for Gender, Children and Community Service, Jenderal Soedirman University, Indonesia From Zero to Hero: Strengthening Social and Economic Remittance as Strategy to the Empowerment of Indonesian Women Migrant Workers |
| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Questions & comments Walk & talk exhibition |
| 17:30 – 18:00 |
Jo Vearey, Elsa Oliveira & Greta Schuler ACMS, South Africa. MoVE (method:visual:explore) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Conference dinner |
| Day 3 - 2 July (Thursday) | |
|---|---|
| 9.00 – 10:30 |
Policy roundtable – I Gender dynamics in labour markets Chairperson : Peter Evans
Questions & comments |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Tea break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Policy roundtable – II Expectations and moralities surrounding remittances Chairperson : L. Alan Winters
Questions & comments |
| 12:30 – 13:00 |
Closing remarks : Dorte Thorsen |
| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
ARI ASIA TRENDS SYMPOSIUM, 2 July 18:30 – 20:30 (*SCAPE)
En route to the departure hall: how migrants navigate recruitment processes
Synopsis
Somewhere in Indonesia, a woman is speaking to a labour recruiter, trying to choose between staying at home and leaving to earn her livelihood in another country. In Bangladesh, a man is making his way to a training centre, intent on learning the necessary skills that will speed him to work overseas. Migrants are moved by hope: to remit money to educate their children and save for their families, and to lay the foundations for a future that they aspire towards. But the decision to migrate for work can often be a huge gamble, especially for those who are compelled to do so by prevailing economic insecurity. Before boarding a plane, migrants may face high placement fees, opaque bureaucratic processes, demanding training procedures, and powerful worries about the unknown. Given these barriers, what dreams spur men and women across borders?
To facilitate this growing trend of transnational migration, a lucrative migration industry has sprung up. Migrants rely on a series of brokers, sponsors, agents, and trainers to help them through its bewildering processes. What are some unregulated gaps within the industry which may lead to exploitative practices? How do recruitment agents shape migrant mobilities? How do migrants make their way through these possible pitfalls? And what is the way forward? This public symposium offers a comparative perspective on various issues and challenges concerning the recruitment of low-waged migrant labour in Asia.