{"id":9276,"date":"2025-04-17T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ias.ubd.edu.bn\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:25:54","slug":"working-paper-on-indonesian-chinese-migrant-workers-in-brunei-darussalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ias.ubd.edu.bn\/?p=9276","title":{"rendered":"Working Paper on Indonesian Chinese Migrant Workers in Brunei Darussalam"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 84: Doing Fieldwork on Indonesian Chinese Migrant Workers in Brunei Darussalam<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Westly Lo Siong Wei<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Abstract: <\/strong>This paper makes the case for a more spontaneous approach to collecting data from the field in qualitative studies of labour migration rather than an overly planned one. It shows the benefit of this supplemental method in fine-grained investigations by illustrating how my own fieldwork in a circle of the Indonesian Chinese migrant workers transitioned from intentionally planned to a more impromptu engagement. A defining feature of \u2018hanging around\u2019 as method is the fieldworker\u2019s conscious effort to not view the migrant workers as simply informants and go beyond that. It involves the researcher humanizing the interviewees as people who have motivations and concerns as migrant labour other than purely pecuniary and in further establishing a connection with them before proceeding to interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Author<\/strong><\/p>

Westly Lo<\/strong> is a graduate student who recently submitted his MA thesis for examination in the Faculty of Arts and Social Scienes, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, under the supervision of Professor Lian Kwen Fee. The author developed this working paper from one of its chapters. The thesis is entitled: Traversing Land Borders: Meaning-Making and The Migration Experience of West Kalimantan Chinese Workers in Brunei Darussalam. The author is interested in migration, nationality, Chinese diaspora, and Borneo.
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To see more IAS Working Papers, please visit the IAS Working Papers web page<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 84: Doing Fieldwork on Indonesian Chinese Migrant Workers in Brunei Darussalam\u00a0by Westly Lo Siong Wei. Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: This paper makes the case for a more spontaneous approach 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