東アジアにおける家事労働の国際商品化とインドネシア人労働者の位置づけ

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The purposes of this paper are to clarify working condition of Indonesian transnational domestic workers in Asian Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs); namely Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, and to make international comparison among sending countries. The monopolistic position of Filipino transnational domestic workers in labor market has been eroded due to rapid growth of Indonesian domestic workers. One of the reasons is due mainly to the comparative advantage of employment of Indonesian workers by the low cost and labor flexibility even below the legal threshold. The "dumping" of migrant workers is a government's strategy to have more shares in the international labor market. Therefore, this is a cause of formation of hierarchy in terms of working condition of domestic workers by nationality. However, the migrant workers acting as an agency to change the status quo is also observed through unionization or organization of themselves, which makes the Indonesian transnational domestic workers visible and "politically non-ignorable".