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Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam.

The Anxieties of Mobility Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands Southeast Asia Politics Meaning and Memory

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    Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
    Publication Date: 10/30/2008
    ISBN13: 9780824833152, 978-0824833152
    ISBN10: 0824833155

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. This book explores the experiences of migrants and tourists who pass through Batam.

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