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Below is a list of my scholarly publications along with access links.
Below is a list of my scholarly publications along with access links.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Awards
Winner, ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section’s Best Scholarly Article Award, 2025.
Winner, ASA Asia and Asian America Section’s Research Paper Award, 2025.
Chang, Andy Scott. 2024. “Masculinity on the Margins: Boundary Work among Immobile Fathers in Indonesia’s Transnational Families.” Social Forces 102(3): 1048-1067. Article link.
Abstract
Abstract
Scholars underline the persistence of gender disparities in the household division of labor. However, it remains understudied how working-class men manage family life amid the physical absence of breadwinning women. Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews and over 22 months of fieldwork in Indonesia, this article investigates how non-migrant fathers navigate conjugal and paternal responsibilities in families headed by migrant mothers. I argue that the reproduction of mother-away transnational families hinges on a refashioning of male conduct for the accomplishment of immobile fatherhood—a model of parenthood developed by non-migrant fathers to accommodate the migration of mothers. I examine the boundary work that men engage in to affirm their selfhood when confronted with the diminution of labor market prospects. In response to their status anxieties surrounding the mounting autonomy of transnational mothers, immobile fathers craft moral boundaries around a commitment to the family. Furthermore, immobile fathers reconstitute masculinity away from providership toward an assemblage of waged labor, childrearing, financial management, and housework that comprises the hallmarks of working-class femininities. By positioning themselves as “family men” in contradiction to irresponsible men and women, immobile fathers realize self-respect through their maintenance of transnational families.
Awards
Honorable Mention, ASA Asia and Asian America Section’s Best Research Paper Award, 2023.
Winner, ASA PEWS Section’s Distinguished Article Award, 2022.
Winner, ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section’s Distinguished Article Award, 2022.
Honorable Mention, ASA Sociology of Development Section’s Faculty Article Award, 2022.
Winner, SSSP Labor Studies Division’s Harry Braverman Best Graduate Paper, 2020
Chang, Andy Scott. 2021. “Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia.” Social Problems 68(4): 903-924 . Article link.
Abstract
Abstract
This study examines how state and commercial actors construct gender, occupation, and nationality hierarchies in guest worker programs by comparing the migratory procedures for female domestic workers and male industrial operators from Indonesia. Based on 19 months of multi-sited ethnography and 86 interviews in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore, I introduce the notion of multilateralism to theorize the stratification of global migration processes. In multilateral labor markets, governments, brokers, employers, and migrants in multiple countries contend for labor and employment. The homecare market is governed under the rubric of “selling a resume,” whereby Indonesian regulators and labor suppliers pass on recruitment costs to employers, in a context where migrant domestics possess myriad destination options due to their reputation fostered by a government-organized credentialing program. By contrast, Indonesian factory workers expend upfront payment to “buy a job” from destination brokers amid rivalry with migrants of other nationalities. The Indonesian state’s inattention to elevating industrial migrants’ standing through skill formation has compelled private recruiters to vie for jobs by extracting brokerage fees and developing a patchwork of selection mechanisms. This article finds that social actors’ capacity to negotiate the terms of labor exchange is contingent on their structural locations within a global hierarchy of competing nation-states.
Awards
Winner, ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section’s Best Graduate Paper, 2019.
Honorable Mention, ASA International Migration Section’s Distinguished Student Scholar, 2019.
Chang, Andy Scott. 2018. “Producing the Self-Regulating Subject: Liberal Protection in Indonesia’s Migration Infrastructure.” Pacific Affairs 91(14): 695-716. Article link
Abstract
Abstract
Labour protection has become a dominant agenda in global migration governance, particularly for sending countries whose diasporic citizens are denied political rights in host states. Despite having limited authority to arbitrate extraterritorial disputes, sending countries like Indonesia have deployed novel techniques of statecraft to improve migrant protection. Through the prism of the professional competence exam and pre-departure orientation seminar, this article investigates the Indonesian state’s regulatory practices that focus on migrant conduct. Although outbound domestic workers are subject to a prolonged process of skill formation, other Indonesian contract workers pursue emigration upon acquiring basic legal knowledge without undergoing accreditation. While both programs are designed to inculcate migrant capabilities for self-protection, the state’s professionalization of domestic workers constitutes a liberal strategy of exclusion that is predicated on their master status as “vulnerable victims” in public discourse. To understand Indonesia’s increasingly mediated migration infrastructure, then, requires attention to the liberal rationality of protection that involves the transformation of migrants into self-regulating subjects.
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