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Distro - Costly Dreams

Susan Meiselas 

This work focuses on Indonesian maids migrating to Singapore as live-in domestic workers. Worldwide, millions of women and girls turn to domestic work as one of the few options available to provide for themselves and their families. Their dreams of earning money to educate their children or build a new house often come with grave risks and costs. Indonesian women migrating as domestic workers to Singapore typically sign two-year contracts and must forego the first eight to ten months of their salaries to repay huge recruitment fees. Their contracts often provide only one day off per month and a... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

INDONESIA. Malang, East Java. 2006. Many women in rural Indonesia... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

INDONESIA. Jakarta. 2006. Women learn to vacuum at Opp Asosiasi... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

INDONESIA. Batam. 2006. Young women wait for their labor agent... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

SINGAPORE. 2006. Advertisement in front of a maid agency in a... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

SINGAPORE. 2006. Domestic workers awaiting transfers to new employers... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

SINGAPORE. 2006. Potential employers interview domestic workers... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

SINGAPORE. 2006. Mina, 27, washes the windows at a high-rise... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

EAST SINGAPORE. 2006. Eton, holds her employer's child on a rainy... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

SINGAPORE. 2006. Kartini (not her real name), 23, from East Java,... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

INDONESIA. Jakarta. 2006. Migrant workers returning to Indonesia... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

INDONESIA. Jakarta. 2006. Sri (not her real name), 27, whose... 

Susan Meiselas 2006

INDONESIA. Jakarta. 2006. Migrant workers returning to Indonesia... 
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