Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia NIAS Press retells the plotline of the

retells the plotline of the classical Ramakian

and personal interviews

This pioneering substantive work traces the history and evolution of the textiles of Myanmar (Burma) made and used by the Burman (Bama) ethnic majority who comprise approximately seventy percent of the population

the outbreak of World War II

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Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia NIAS Press retells the plotline of theBy 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