The Anxieties of Mobility - Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Johan A. Lindquist is assistant professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. Klappentext Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town! where foreign investment! mostly from neighboring Singapore! converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam. Zusammenfassung Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town! where foreign investment! mostly from neighboring Singapore! converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam.

Product details

• Authors: Johan A Lindquist, Johan A. Lindquist
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780824833152
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3315-2
• No. of pages: 193
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory; Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology