Departing from Java: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora Japan and how it has grown

and how it has grown to become a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise

but also the resulting controversies about the value of Leonowens’s contributions to scholarship on nineteenth-century Thailand (Siam)

I wonder how one can stuff one’s feet into shoes that hurt so much

It is a path that calls us to be careful

Based on a thorough analysis of interview transcripts and a large body of contemporary manuscript material

Departing from Java: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora Japan and how it has grownEdited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel From colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often with traumatic results. Today, Javanese communities are found as close as Kalimantan and as far away as Suriname and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, migrant workers from Java continue to travel abroad, finding