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Luton, Lex (2023)

Natives and Newcomers: Collective violence against internal migrants in post-Suharto Indonesia

Master thesis | History (MA)

After Suharto stepped down in 1998, buried grievances between natives and migrants, and Christians and Muslims, came to light. During this post-Suharto period, large-scale communal and separatist conflicts broke out across the archipelago. This thesis analyses three of these conflicts and questions why the indigenous populations of West Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, and Papua resorted to collective violence against internal labour migrants in post- Suharto Indonesia, and asks under what historical and socio-economic conditions group boundaries were made, maintained and defended. By answering these questions, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of what drives collective violence against labour migrants, and looks to identify general mechanisms of collective violence by analysing the erosion of intergroup boundaries.

Indonesia

Migration

Collective violence

Author

Luton, Lex

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence

Supervisors

Lucassen, L.A.C.J.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en