TY - GEN T1 - Ethnic dissent and empowerment : economic migration between Vietnam and Malaysia T2 - Studies of world migrations. A1 - Tran, Angie Ngoc LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1266201803 AB - "This book focuses on guest workers in Malaysia from five of Vietnam's fity-four ethnic groups: the Kinh (Vietnam's ethnic majority), the Hoa (ethnic Chinese), the Khmer, the Chăm Muslims, and the Hrê. The groups engage in different migration patterns, forms of resistance, and forms of empowerment. The transnational labor brokerage state (LBS) system affects female and male migrants differently, from the dehumanizing recruitment phase, to the precarity of working in Malaysia and the open protest to abuses, to forms of empowerment, including remittances, debt defaults, and stepwise international migration, through which workers migrate to different countries in a stepwise fashion to improve their condition. These guest workers draw on their economic and cultural resources to survive, thrive in the LBS system, or bypass it altogether. They engage in different "third spaces" of dissent. Physical third spaces are not defined in terms of the legal and illegal categories of the law but by the tacit acceptance of the community in which the migrants live and work. Metaphorical third spaces are discourses of dissent, uttered by nonstate competing authorities in order to challenge the state's authority through ironic and subversive mimicries. The findings are based on eight years of research and fieldwork interviews in Vietnam and Malaysia (2008-15), a significant period of change in labor export policies"-- CN - HD8700.6 .T74 2022 SN - 9780252052248 SN - 0252052242 SN - 9780252043369 SN - 9780252085277 SN - 0252085272 SN - 0252043367 KW - Foreign workers, Vietnamese : Malaysia. KW - Travailleurs étrangers vietnamiens : Malaisie. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - Foreign workers, Vietnamese KW - Malaysia ER -