[English] – On November 30, 2023, Asian Labour Review published the article Sweatshops and Assembly Halls. The Class Composition of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Manufacturing Industry by Samia Dinkelaker and Ralf Ruckus. The article sketches out the concept of class composition and applies it to Taiwan's migration regime and the everyday struggles of Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwanese factories and their forms of organizing outside their workplaces.
Tag: Indonesia
[Deutsch] – In der WOZ erschien am 5. Oktober 2023 der Artikel Nickel für den "grünen" Kapitalismus von Ralf Ruckus. Darin geht es um die Ausbeutung indonesischer Arbeiter:innen und chinesischer Wanderarbeiter:innen durch chinesische Unternehmen in Nickelminen und Nickelschmelzen in Indonesiens Provinz Zentralsulawsi.
[English] – On August 16, 2023, New Bloom Magazine published an article written by Ralf Ruckus on the punk band Southern Riot, the members' daily experiences as migrant workers, their music and their lyrics in which they attack the "system of slavery" migrant workers from Southeast Asia are subjected to by Taiwans racist migration regime: Southern Riot: Indonesian Migrant Workers Use Punk Music to Claim Improvements in Taiwan.
[Español] – Este artículo fue escrito como parte de un proyecto de investigación sobre la situación de los trabajadores migrantes indonesios en Taiwán, sus formas de organizarse, resistir y seguir siendo human@s: Taiwán: Migración laboral indonesia y el rol del Heavy Metal.
[English] – This article written by Ralf Ruckus was published by New Bloom Magazine on June 5, 2023. It follows the heavy metal scene of Indonesian migrant factory workers in Taiwan and its flagship band Jubah Hitam. Caught up in Taiwan's racist migration and labor regime that treats migrants as mere labor power serving the interests of Taiwan capital, Indonesian migrant workers search for spaces to come together, be creative, and have a life outside wage work: At work treated like a robot, through metal feeling like a human.
[Deutsch] – Die WOZ veröffentlichte am 9. März 2023 eine Beitrag von Ralf Ruckus zu indonesischen Migrant:innen, die in Taiwan als billige Arbeitskräfte ausgebeutet und rassistisch ausgegrenzt werden. Zur gegenseitigen Unterstützung bilden sie Subkulturen, zum Beispiel um die Heavy-Metal-Band Jubah Hitam: Beim Metal Mensch, bei der Arbeit Roboter.
[English] – Positions Politics published preliminary notes by Samia Dinkelaker and Ralf Ruckus on their ethnographic study among Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan’s fishing and manufacturing industries. They "share how migrant workers describe their conditions," and they "introduce racialized capitalism as an analytical lens to understand the systematic differentiation and exploitation of Southeast Asian migrant workers and Taiwan’s racialized labor market."
[english] – This podcast is part of the online discussion series China and the Left. To listen to the podcast, click here.
[bahasa | english]– Pada 1 Maret 2020, pekerja migran domestik asal Indonesia, sekaligus penulis dan jurnalis bernama Yuli Riswati berbincang dengan Ralf Ruckus dan Alina Kornfeldt tentang keterlibatan yang kelihatan dan tak kasat dari para pekerja migran domestik dalam perjuangan Hong Kong. Walau kerja-kerja mereka telah menopang gerakan—belum lagi fungsi mereka dalam hidup sehari-hari—kepentingan mereka terabaikan dalam tuntutan demokrasi Hong Kong: https://lausancollective.com/2020/disebut-orang-hong-kong-atau-bukan-kami-tetap-bagian-dari-hong-kong/.
[bahasa | english] – On March 1, 2020, the migrant domestic worker and citizen journalist Yuli Riswati talked to Ralf Ruckus and Alina Kornfeldt about the (Indonesian) migrant domestic workers’ visible and invisible involvement in the Hong Kong opposition movement. Economic and social life in Hong Kong would not function without migrant domestic workers. Their labor also sustained the persistence of Hong Kong’s opposition movement, but their concerns hardly play any role in its demands for more democracy.
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