Melintasi Batas Negara Bangsa:Formasi Gerakan Perlindungan Hak Buruh Migran Domestik di Malaysia

Irza Khurunin, Maharani Hapsari

2016 | Tesis | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

Abstract The aim of this research is to understand the formation in the issues of migrant domestic workers’ right protection in Malaysia by analyzing the transnational activism in four civi organizations, there are WAO (Women’s Aid Organization), Tenaganita, NSI (North South Initiatives), and AOHD (Archdiocesan Office of Human Development). This research is qualitative research which use deep interview, obervation, and documentation in collecting the data. Formation processes of transnational activism in protecting migrant domestic workers’ rights are the activists construct their collective identity, then they frame the issues in three aspects, those are diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing to gain the collective interest. The last, they determine the strategy that classified in three level, those are grassroot level, national level, and international level. Transnationalization of movement for migrant domestic workers’ rights protection in Malaysia, meanwhile, happened in three processes, those are in domestic ground, transitional level, and international level. Keywords: Migrant domestic workers, Transnational activism, Human rights, Collective identity, Rooted cosmopolitan

Kata Kunci : Hak Azasi Manusia - Malaysia