Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia yao prospects and hopes

prospects and hopes

a listening section

Mirroring migrants’ transnational lives

and her compassion is vital in a land that seeks to heal its wounds

Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia yao prospects and hopesEdited by Silvia Vignato and Matteo Carlo Alcano More and more, in Southeast Asia, low skilled labor is expected to be mobile and job seeking implies leaving. In factories, plantations, fields, extraction, commerce, services, and construction, a whole nebula of low paid, mostly young, small scale migrants allows the regional economy to function. This volume brings together a unique collection of bottom up accounts of the work and life of locally