2018/03/01 |
New Technologies are Changing the Story of Migrant Labor
Mobile phones and budget airlines have transformed the way migrant brokerages operate, but the world lacks an understanding of how the migration process itself takes shape.
Johan Lindquist
Johan Lindquist is a professor of social anthropology and the director of the Forum for Asian Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is the co-editor of “Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity,” the author of “The Anxieties of Mobility: Development and Migration in the Indonesian Borderlands,” and the director of B.A.T.A.M.