Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23565
Title: Javanese in Malaysia: Labour Migration, Settlement and Diaspora
Contributor(s): Kaur, Amarjit  (author)
Publication Date: 2018
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23565
Abstract: Javanese labour migration to Malaya in the late 19th century was the third most important migration movement after Chinese and Indian labour migration. It correlated with the increased demand for raw materials in industrialising Europe and labour shortages that necessitated the importation of cheap foreign workers. Javanese migrants were hired mostly for employment on rubber plantations and their subsequent settlement in the country laid the foundation for an incipient Javanese diaspora. Following Malayan independence in 1957, the government halted the recruitment of less-skilled foreign labour and expelled non-citizens from the country. In the 1970s Malaysia instigated an export-oriented industrialisation strategy. With the Malays primarily engaged in agriculture, the government espoused federal land development schemes (FELDA) and plantations rather than small farms in the countryside and promoted oil palm cultivation. Concurrently, the government embraced labour-intensive manufacturing production. Apart from increased employment opportunities on the land development programmes, Malaysia also became an important location for foreign manufacturing production The changing economic structures and Malaysian women's greater participation in the formal sectors created a niche for mainly Indonesian domestic workers. For this reason the Malaysian government re-instated the recruitment of less-skilled Javanese workers chiefly for agricultural development schemes and the construction, manufacturing and domestic work sectors.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Departing from Java: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora, p. 103-136
Publisher: NIAS Press
Place of Publication: Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN: 9788776942465
9788776942458
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160303 Migration
160512 Social Policy
160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440303 Migration
440712 Social policy
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950502 Understanding Asia's Past
919999 Economic Framework not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130702 Understanding Asia’s past
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://www.niaspress.dk/books/departing-java
Series Name: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics
Series Number : 66
Editor: Editor(s): Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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