Specters of Affinity: Clandestine Movement and Commensurate Values in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Andrew Michael Carruthers
نام ساير پديدآوران
Errington, J. Joseph
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Yale University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2016
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
277
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-05153-7
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Yale University
امتياز متن
2016
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation examines the relationship between movement, materiality, and value in a scene of cross-border clandestine migration and rapid sociopolitical change - the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands. In settings of clandestine cross-border movement throughout the world, undocumented immigrants' bodies are typically assumed to exhibit signs of their so-called 'illegal' status. In the absence of linguistic, phenotypic, cultural, or religious signs of categorical outsidership, however, how are immigrants made legible and policed? How might such immigrants negotiate their statuses as objects of state surveillance by exploiting their perceived affinities with members of a (sometimes inhospitable) 'host' community? The dissertation evaluates these issues in a borderland region, focusing on ethnically Bugis migrants from Indonesia who settle in the east Malaysian state of Sabah. Bugis Indonesians from Sulawesi were long encouraged to informally emigrate as laborers to neighboring Sabah, where they were readily assimilated as Malay-speaking Muslim members of the greater 'Malay race.' Recent political and economic forces, however, have led to countervailing narratives in which immigrants from Indonesia now figure as an illusory yet omnipresent group that displaces locals and threatens state security. The dissertation addresses how Malaysian efforts to police this presence have proven difficult due to a practical challenge: Bugis Indonesians and their co-ethnic Malaysian counterparts exhibit no salient diacritics of categorical difference. It examines how these developments have led Bugis Indonesians and Bugis Malaysians to jointly reappraise the qualities they are assumed to share in common. It demonstrates how these reappraisals reflect and are shaped by everyday acts of commensuration - a process whereby different entities with shared qualities are characterized and compared along gradations of more-or-less-ness. It establishes how relative intensities of particular qualities now constitute key indices of outsidership (or illegality) in the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Cultural anthropology
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences;Indonesia;Malaysia;Materiallity;Movement;Semiotics;Value
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