Global Patterns of Forced Labor in Island Southeast Asia

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Publication Title

Journal of Modern Slavery

Abstract

Island Southeast Asia has long been a site of cross-border slavery and migration. Utilizing archival sources, ethnographic data, and news reports, the article considers patterns of forced labor in the case studies of domestic servitude and household work from the ata of Indonesia, the alipin of the Philippines, and foreign domestic workers from both countries. From a critical review of historical slavery to contemporary transnational migration, the article analyzes the sociocultural, economic, linguistic, geographical, and political dynamics at play and reorients the focus of slavery scholarship from the Atlantic context to include the wider implications of intra-Asia slavery.

Keywords

Slavery, migration, forced labor, domestic work, Southeast Asia

Volume

7

Issue

2

First Page

118

Last Page

144

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