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Specters of Affinity : = Clandestine Movement and Commensurate Values in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands.

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Title/Author:	Specters of Affinity :/
Reminder of title:	Clandestine Movement and Commensurate Values in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands.
Author:	Carruthers, Andrew Michael.
Description:	1 online resource (277 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-12A(E).
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ISBN:	9781369051537

Specters of Affinity : = Clandestine Movement and Commensurate Values in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands.
Carruthers, Andrew Michael.

Specters of Affinity :Clandestine Movement and Commensurate Values in the Indonesia-Malaysia Borderlands. - 1 online resource (277 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

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This dissertation examines the relationship between movement, materiality, and value in a scene of cross-border clandestine migration and rapid sociopolitical change --- the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands. In settings of clandestine cross-border movement throughout the world, undocumented immigrants' bodies are typically assumed to exhibit signs of their so-called "illegal" status. In the absence of linguistic, phenotypic, cultural, or religious signs of categorical outsidership, however, how are immigrants made legible and policed? How might such immigrants negotiate their statuses as objects of state surveillance by exploiting their perceived affinities with members of a (sometimes inhospitable) "host" community? The dissertation evaluates these issues in a borderland region, focusing on ethnically Bugis migrants from Indonesia who settle in the east Malaysian state of Sabah. Bugis Indonesians from Sulawesi were long encouraged to informally emigrate as laborers to neighboring Sabah, where they were readily assimilated as Malay-speaking Muslim members of the greater "Malay race." Recent political and economic forces, however, have led to countervailing narratives in which immigrants from Indonesia now figure as an illusory yet omnipresent group that displaces locals and threatens state security. The dissertation addresses how Malaysian efforts to police this presence have proven difficult due to a practical challenge: Bugis Indonesians and their co-ethnic Malaysian counterparts exhibit no salient diacritics of categorical difference. It examines how these developments have led Bugis Indonesians and Bugis Malaysians to jointly reappraise the qualities they are assumed to share in common. It demonstrates how these reappraisals reflect and are shaped by everyday acts of commensuration --- a process whereby different entities with shared qualities are characterized and compared along gradations of more-or-less-ness. It establishes how relative intensities of particular qualities now constitute key indices of outsidership (or illegality) in the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands.

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520 $a Chapter One, "Haunting Affinities in the Land Below the Wind," provides an ethnographic and theoretical overview of the dissertation. It examines recent sociopolitical developments surrounding issues of undocumented migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, attending to the ways in which immigrants from Indonesia are popularly characterized as an invisible presence that threatens to unravel the fabric of everyday life in Sabah. It analyzes how historically-cultivated diasporic infrastructures linking Sulawesi and Sabah have enabled the conditions of possibility for the production and ratification of affinities between Bugis Indonesians and Bugis Malaysians. To explain how affinities between entities are indicated, settled, and framed along gradations of more-or-less-ness, it introduces an account of the semiotics of commensuration that undergirds the dissertation's broader expository aims.
520 $a Chapter Two, "The Tongue, the Dagger, and the Penis: Phallic Resources and the Ethics of Mobility among Bugis Wanderers," serves as an ethnographic primer on the Bugis, detailing their well-established patterns and modes of movement by way of an oft-cited Bugis proverb: "There are three tips for those who migrate: the tip of the tongue, the tip of the dagger, and the tip of the penis." Using each "tip" as a "point" of departure for discussing issues of talk, warfare, and sexuality and gender, I assess how the tongue, the dagger, and the penis have become metonymically associated with Bugis ends-rational assimilatory strategies.
520 $a Chapter Three, "Desiring `Moreness': The (Meta)Quality and Quantity of Moreness in Movement," analyzes how Bugis migrants' desires for "moreness" (Malay: kelebihan) motivates their movement along different paths across different terrains. Chapter Four, "(Dis)orderliness in the Negara Disiplin: Domains of Qualia and Spheres of Experience in Bugis Malaysia," turns to migrants' co-ethnic Malaysian hosts, analyzing how they evaluate migrants' navigations of new terrains of everyday life in Malaysia, a place predicated about in Malay as a "Negara Disiplin" or "state of discipline.".
520 $a Chapter Five, "Grading Qualities, (Un)settling Equivalences, and Intrusive Phonsonics," assesses how Malaysian state agents and concerned citizens attend to sonically-graded differences in embodied norms of talk to sort non-citizens from citizens. In turn, it assesses how Bugis immigrants' attempts to pass as locals by identifying, minimizing, and masking certain features of their speech practices. Chapter Six, "The Bogey of Commensurability in Bugis Malaysia," focuses on an aggrieved man of Bugis extraction (Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak), and a disgruntled group (ethnically Bugis Malaysian citizens), assessing how both have become haunted by comparisons with their "illegal" Indonesian counterparts.
520 $a The conclusion expands upon four key thematics that are explored throughout this text, thematics gestured toward by the noun-phrases that populate this dissertation's title: (i) clandestine movement, (ii) commensurate values, (iii) the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands, and (iv) the specter of affmity.
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