ROM Daytime: Migration Stories: Pathways to Canada and Indonesian Migrant Women
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, May 10, 2018 | 11:00AM - 1:30PM | External Event, Royal Ontario Museum Lecture held in the Eaton Theatre Level 1B |
Series
ROM Daytime
Description
Discover ground breaking research and fascinating advances in art, culture, and nature as our experts share their cutting edge work in this engaging series of daytime lectures.
Join Professor Rachel Silvey as she examines the emotional vocabularies and imagined geographies of gendered piety that are deployed in attempts to mobilize, direct, and discipline women’s transnational labor migration. Her in-depth work is based on interviews with migrant recruiters, state officials, and migrants in West Java, as well as data collected by migrant rights activists, and explores the articulations of women’s virtue as a key dimension of the moral geographies of Indonesian women’s overseas migration.
Rachel Silvey is Richard Charles Lee Director of the Asian Institute and Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is a Faculty Affiliate in CDTS, WGSI, and the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a dual B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Environmental Studies and Southeast Asian Studies.
Professor Silvey is best known for her research on women’s labour and migration in Indonesia. She has published widely in the fields of migration studies, cultural and political geography, gender studies, and critical development. Her major funded research projects have focused on migration, gender, social networks, and economic development in Indonesia; immigration and employment among Southeast Asian-Americans; migration and marginalization in Bangladesh and Indonesia; and religion, rights and Indonesian migrant women workers in Saudi Arabia.
NOTE: This lecture replaces the talk originally scheduled by Lisa Mar
Free with Museum Admission
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Lecture in Eaton Theatre
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Coffee, Tea & Treats in Theatre Rotunda
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