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The politics of leisure and labor mobilities: discourses of tourism and transnational migration in Central Java, Indonesia

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This article presents narratives and tropes of transnational tourism from a less considered perspective: rural migrant-origin villagers of Central Java. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cilacap and Yogyakarta, I analyze how and why some former temporary labor migrants depict their typically harsh experiences in terms of tourism and leisure. Addressing the tendency in current research to approach labor migration and tourism as mutually exclusive or unrelated class categories and experiences, I consider the ways in which former migrants and non-migrant villagers evaluate or identify labor migration in terms of gender, class, religious, and ethno-national subjectivities associated with ‘tourist’ and/or ‘migrant’ categories. Popular and commercial imaginations of leisure travel and tourism importantly shape the subjectivities and positionalities of precarious labor migrants. Foregrounding the relations between tourism and labor migration reveals the multi-scalar ways in which associated discourses and infrastructures of both mutually shape and constitute global socio-economic inequalities.

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  • Carol Chan, 2018. "The politics of leisure and labor mobilities: discourses of tourism and transnational migration in Central Java, Indonesia," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 325-336, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:13:y:2018:i:3:p:325-336
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1356436
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