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Abstract

International labour mobility has increased Indonesian female migrant domestic workers' involvement in transnational labour organisations. Because of their precarious work, advocacy and unions are crucial to protecting them overseas. This paper examines the debates on the political activism of Indonesian female domestic workers and discusses the gap that migration scholars have not yet addressed. The study's conceptual core employs the concept of migrant political transnationalism, which generates the intersection of migrant citizenship and receiving country sovereignty. The author has reviewed thirty journals using exclusion and inclusion criteria with a qualitative narrative literature review. Grassroots advocacy for Indonesian domestic workers primarily emerged in Hong Kong. On the one hand, territorial normativity and sovereignty in the receiving country may prohibit migrants from participating in politics. However, they still can engage in extra-electoral politics as non-citizens. Domestic workers advocate for their rights through lobbying, protests, and rallies. On the other hand, electoral political participation in homeland politics, which political transnational scholars rarely discuss, and their contribution to mobilising votes abroad is also necessary. This finding motivates the investigation's research agenda: Do Indonesian female domestic migrant workers engage with their electoral homeland politics?

Bahasa Abstract

Migrasi tenaga kerja internasional telah meningkatkan keterlibatan pekerja rumah tangga (PRT) migran dalam ranah organisasi pekerja migran skala transnational. Karena kondisi kerja yang cukup beresiko, advokasi dan serikat pekerja menjadi hal krusial untuk melindungi pekerja Indonesia di luar negeri. Tulisan ini berupaya untuk mengidentifikasi praktik keterlibatan advokasi politik PRT migran dan mengisi celah yang belum didiskusikan para peneliti dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini menggunakan konsep politik transnational migran yang menghasilkan irisan antara konsep kewarganegaaraan migran dan kedaulatan negara tujuan. Tiga puluh jurnal diulas menggunakan kriteria exclusion dan inclusion melalui analisa kualitatif naratif. Advokasi politik melalui gerakan akar rumput terdapat banyak di Hongkong. Namun, normativitas teritorial and kedaulatan negara tujuan dapat membatasi partisipasi politik mereka. Meskipun demikian, pekerja domestik tetap dapat berkontribusi dalam extra-electoral politics. Mereka dapat mempengaruhi kebijakan publik dalam bentuk protes dan demonstrasi. Di sisi lain, keterlibatan pekerja domestik Indonesia dalam electoral politics tanah air masih belum mendapatkan analisa yang mendalam, meskipun mereka memiliki peranan dalam mobilisasi suara diaspora dari luar negeri. Hal ini menarik untuk menjawab pertanyaan: Apakah pekerja rumah tangga terlibat aktif dalam politik tanah air?

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