Small Enterprises by Former Migrant Workers

DOI

10.2991/icstcsd-19.2020.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

former migrant workers, social remittance, entrepreneurship, community participation

Abstract

Indonesia migrant workers have potential social remittance that they generated while working in their host country. Social remittance itself is identified as a capability which is got from a foreign country, namely skill, knowledge, and culture that give the advantage to develop themselves and their home country. This paper will discuss how former migrant workers use their social remittance to improve their life and the community where they live, with one case study, the experience of Titi, a former migrant worker from Banyumas who is now an entrepreneur. This paper argues that by using social remittance, they succeed to develop themselves to be an entrepreneur and give a contribution to enhance the economic life of the community. The research uses in-depth interview and observation to obtain the information on their experiences and perceptions on social remittance, starting from how the social remittance was created until how this social remittance was used to improve their economy. Triangulation is defined as processing data. The experiences which were learned in the research will be discussed as follows. Firstly, the social remittance that they generated while working abroad is identified. Secondly, the process in improving their business skill is discussed. Thirdly, their engagement with their local community as part of collective remittance is explored.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sri Wijayanti
AU  - Nurul Azizah Zayzda
PY  - 2020/01
DA  - 2020/01
TI  - Small Enterprises by Former Migrant Workers
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Transformation, Community and Sustainable Development (ICSTCSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 120
EP  - 124
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icstcsd-19.2020.20
DO  - 10.2991/icstcsd-19.2020.20
ID  - Wijayanti2020/01
ER  -