The anxieties of mobility : migration and tourism in the Indonesian borderlands /

Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Export processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vil...

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Author / Creator: Lindquist, Johan.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2009.
Series:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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