The transnational village in Timor-Leste
Migrants in 2020 stay connected with their homes in ways unimaginable just 10 years ago. In the case of the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) which facilitates the short term, repeat travel of Timorese to Australia to engage in harvest labour, this connectivity particularly pronounced and imp...
| Published in: | The Australian journal of anthropology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2023, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-14 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Change
B Timor-Leste B Development B Anthropology B class / labour |
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| Summary: | Migrants in 2020 stay connected with their homes in ways unimaginable just 10 years ago. In the case of the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) which facilitates the short term, repeat travel of Timorese to Australia to engage in harvest labour, this connectivity particularly pronounced and important. In this article, drawing on original ethnographic fieldwork in the household of a returned SWP worker in Oecussi, I argue that this connectivity is intense enough that it calls us to reassess what we mean by migration how we think about its impact on development. Rather than thinking of SWP participants as migrants, I argue, it may be more useful to think of them as ‘trans-national villagers’ whose international labour encodes understandings of work and wealth that are essentially an extension of those prevailing in Timor and definitive in its impact. |
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| ISSN: | 1757-6547 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Australian journal of anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/taja.12454 |