This dissertation explores the lives, thought-worlds, and struggles of migrant workers working in a metal polishing export factory in the Okhla Industrial Area of Delhi. The factory employed about sixty male migrants, largely from villages in the states of Uttaranchal, Uttar Pra…
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This dissertation concerns the experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers who are or have been in a same-sex relationship in Hong Kong. The timeframe of my research spans two years, from 2010 to 2012. By studying the construction of gender and sexuality in the context of…
This dissertation explores three important topics in the Development Economics literature. The first chapter provides further evidence on the consequences of illness episodes on earnings and consumption in Indonesia. We exploit a rich panel dataset that allows us to combine fixe…
Between the late 1980s and early 2000s, an estimated 300,000 transnational migrant workers from locales as diverse as Nigeria and the Philippines, Ghana and Ecuador, Romania and Mongolia arrived in Israel, thereby radically transforming the urban ethnoscape of metropolitan Tel A…
This study proposes a regime on undocumented labor migration. It examines the extent to which an equitable apportionment of state responsibility, taking into account the role of states in crises involving transboundary migration, is feasible in the context of undocumented labor …
This thesis explores “the new imperialism of exploitation as development” (Spivak 1999) in the post-independent Philippines. In examining the Philippines' positioning in specific circuits of global capital, economic development is considered as industry, cultural practice, desir…
This dissertation studies the phenomenon of foreign female domestic workers (FFDW) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), within the context of the feminization of migration. It examines the impact of the migration process on the lives of the FFDW, their working conditions, and thei…
This is an ethnographic study of the processes of identity negotiation within a community of Indonesian migrant workers in South Korea, a Borderlands where a diversity of cultures collude and collide. I explore the ways that this community of diasporic people use narratives both…
In my dissertation I focus on the experiences of recent immigrants in Canada and Australia. The first two chapters study the role of social networks in the labor market assimilation of new immigrants. The third chapter examines whether the impressions of recent immigrants in Aus…
This study argues that surveillance over migrant workers and immigrants from Turkey in Germany is a means of inclusion and exclusion in order to portray them as "(un)suitable" foreign subjects. However, this surveillance is slowly but surely changing its character. The changing …
With the recognition that the circumstances of the world's religions and those of Christian mission have been changed, this dissertation seeks to develop an evangelical mission theology of Christian-Muslim dialogue in the Korean context. The first part of this study deals with t…
This dissertation examines fatwas (expert legal opinions) produced by the Shi'ite legal establishment (marji'iyah ) for Shi'ites in the West, looking at the construction, support, and communication of minority Muslim identity in the Western cultural context. Its significance lie…