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Doing Fieldwork on Indonesian Chinese Migrant Workers in Brunei Darussalam

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dc.contributor.authorWestly Lo Siong Wei
dc.contributor.editorProfessor Lian Kwen Fee
dc.contributor.editorAssoc. Professor Paul J. Carnegie
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-04T14:18:26Z
dc.date.available2025-11-04T14:18:26Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThis paper makes the case for a more spontaneous approach to collecting data from the field in qualitative studies of labour migration rather than an overly planned one. It shows the benefit of this supplemental method in fine-grained investigations by illustrating how my own fieldwork in a circle of the Indonesian Chinese migrant workers transitioned from intentionally planned to a more impromptu engagement. A defining feature of ‘hanging around’ as method is the fieldworker’s conscious effort to not view the migrant workers as simply informants and go beyond that. It involves the researcher humanizing the interviewees as people who have motivations and concerns as migrant labour other than purely pecuniary and in further establishing a connection with them before proceeding to interview.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ubd.edu.bn/handle/123456789/3600
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInstitute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
dc.relation.ispartofseries84
dc.subject.lcshChinese—Indonesia—Ethnic relations
dc.subject.lcshMigrant labor—Brunei—Case studies
dc.subject.lcshIndonesians—Brunei—Social conditions
dc.subject.lcshEthnology—Fieldwork—Brunei
dc.subject.lcshParticipant observation (Anthropology)—Methodology
dc.titleDoing Fieldwork on Indonesian Chinese Migrant Workers in Brunei Darussalam
dc.typeWorking Paper
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