Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessica Peng has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Indonesia, a Paul J. Franz, Jr. Fellowship, and a Faculty Research Grant in support of ethnographic research she will conduct during her upcoming yearlong sabbatical. Peng's project examines how Indonesian state schools and transnational migration networks are increasingly intertwined in shaping young people's pathways from classrooms into overseas work. This work extends the scope of her first book project on state-led efforts of labor development in Indonesia by tracing inter-Asian circuits of labor migration and showing how newly reformed educational institutions and credentials are repurposed by migration actors to organize out-migration from Indonesia. In doing so, Peng's research will generate new insights into how global economic pressures, education reforms, and migration infrastructures are reshaping the ethics and lived experiences of schooling, work, and mobility in contemporary Asia and the broader Global South.
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