Publications

Latest Publications on Labor Migration in Taiwan

Lan, Pei-Chia, Samia Dinkelaker, and Chih-Hsuan Chang. 2026. “From Migrant Workers to Future Immigrants? ‘Guest Worker’ Programs in Contemporary Taiwan and Post-World War II West Germany.” Historical Social Research. 52(2). (forthcoming).

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2025. “‘Stres’ and Self-protection: Migrant Workers Facing Everyday Violence in Taiwan’s Fisheries.” International Sociology 41(1), 49-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809251359270

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2025. “Rethinking Labour Migration Regimes Through Embodied Experience—A Research Project Among Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan.” ARIscope, July 28. https://doi.org/10.25542/a6m9-xd50

Dinkelaker, Samia, and Ralf Ruckus. 2025. “Taiwan’s Regime of Temporary Migrant Labor: An Overview.” Asian Labour Review, July 7.
https://labourreview.org/taiwans-regime-of-temporary-migrant-labour/

Dinkelaker, Samia, and Ralf Ruckus. 2025. “Taiwan’s Regime of Temporary Migrant Labour: Timeline of Changes” Asian Labour Review, July 7.
https://labourreview.org/a-timeline-of-taiwan-regime-of-temporary-migrant-labour/

Dinkelaker, Samia, and Ralf Ruckus. 2024. “Anmerkungen zur Klassenzusammensetzung indonesischer Wanderarbeiter*innen in den Fabriken Taiwans.” In Klassensolidarität, Autonomie, Selbstorganisation. Erfahrungen und Reflexionen von unten, edited by M. Lautréamont, 32–48. Münster: Unrast.

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2024. “Striving for Control over Migrant Labour and Lives: Indonesian Factory Workers in Taiwan.” Work in the Global Economy 4(1), 52-69. https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176Y2024D000000016

Dinkelaker, Samia, and Ralf Ruckus. 2024. “‘We still have a long way to go’ – Interview with TIWA on their Activity and Changes in Taiwan’s Migration Regime since the1990s.” Asian Labour Review, March 4. https://labourreview.org/a-long-way-to-go/

Dinkelaker, Samia, and Ralf Ruckus. 2023. “Sweatshops and Assembly Halls. The Class Composition of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Manufacturing Industry.” Asian Labour Review, November 30. https://labourreview.org/sweatshops-assembly-halls/

Dinkelaker, Samia, and Ralf Ruckus. 2023. “Indonesian Migrant Labor in Taiwan’s Racialized Capitalism. Preliminary Notes on a Research Project.” positions politics, March 29. https://positionspolitics.org/samia-dinkelaker-ralf-ruckus-indonesian-migrant-labor-in-taiwans-racialized-capitalism-preliminary-notes-on-a-research-project/

Dissertation

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2020. Negotiating Respect(ability). A Transnational Ethnography of Indonesian Labor Brokerage. Osnabrück: Osnadocs.https://doi.org/10.48693/21

Edited Volumes

Dinkelaker, Samia, Nikolai Huke, and Olaf Tietje. 2021. Nach der ‘Willkommenskultur.’ Geflüchtete zwischen umkämpfter Teilhabe und zivilgesellschaftlicher Solidarität (After ‘Welcome Culture.’ Refugees between Contested Participation and Civic Solidarity). Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454145-001

Stodulka, Thomas, Samia Dinkelaker, and Ferdiansyah Thajib. 2019. Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8

Book Chapters

Tietje, Olaf, Samia Dinkelaker, and Nikolai Huke. 2021. “Umkämpfte Teilhabe (Contested Participation).” In Nach der ‘Willkommenskultur.’ Geflüchtete zwischen umkämpfter Teilhabe und zivilgesellschaftlicher Solidarität, edited by Samia Dinkelaker, Nikolai Huke, and Olaf Tietje, 7–22. Bielefeld: transcript.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839454145-001

Braun, Katherine, and Samia Dinkelaker. 2021. “Schutz für geflüchtete Frauen* im Spannungsfeld von besondere Schutzbedürftigkeit und restriktiven Migrationspolitiken (Protection for Refugee Women* between Particular Vulnerability and Restrictive Migration Policies).“ In Nach der ‘Willkommenskultur.’ Geflüchtete zwischen umkämpfter Teilhabe und zivilgesellschaftlicher Solidarität, edited by Samia Dinkelaker, Nikolai Huke, and Olaf Tietje, 65–88 . Bielefeld: transcript.
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454145-004

Stodulka, Thomas, Samia Dinkelaker, and Ferdiansyah Thajib. 2019. “Fieldwork, Ethnography, and the Empirical Affect Montage.” In Analyzing Affective Societies. Methods and Methodologies, edited by Antje Kahl, 279–95. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429424366

Thajib, Ferdiansyah, Samia Dinkelaker, and Thomas Stodulka. 2019. “Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography.” In Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by Thomas Stodulka, Samia Dinkelaker, and Ferdiansyah Thajib, 7–22. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_2

Mattes, Dominik, and Samia Dinkelaker. 2019. “Failing and Attuning in the Field.” In Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by Thomas Stodulka, Samia Dinkelaker, and Ferdiansyah Thajib, 227–31. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_20

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2018. “National Belonging and Violent Norms of Gendered Migrant Citizenship. Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers’ Appropriation of a National Ritual.” gender[ed] thoughts. New Perspectives in Gender Research 1/2018: 8–21. https://doi.org/10.3249/2509-8179-gtg-5

Booklets and Working Papers

Dinkelaker, Samia, Paula Edling, and Helen Schwenken. 2021. Schutz vor geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt im Kontext von Flucht und Migration. Sechs Unterstützungsprojekte im Portrait (Protection against Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Displacement and Migration. Portraying Six Support Projects). Osnabrück: Osnabrück University.

Bieling, Hans-Jürgen, Doreen Bormann, Samia Dinkelaker, Paula Edling, Tom Fixemer, Helen Schwenken, Elisabeth Tuider. 2021. Demokratie und Partizipation in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Unterrichtspraktische Methoden und Materialien für Bildungsreferent*innen und Lehrkräfte der gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fächer und Fächerverbünde (Democracy and Participation in Migration Societies. School Teaching Materials for the Social Science Subjects). Kassel, Osnabrück, Tübingen: Universities of Kassel, Osnabrück,
and Tübingen. http://tinyurl.com/y7jckr6y

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2021. “Schutz vor Gewalt im Kontext Flucht und Migration (Protection Against Violence in the Context of Displacement and Migration).” In Demokratie und Partizipation in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Unterrichtspraktische Methoden und Materialien für Bildungsreferent*innen und Lehrkräfte für die gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fächer und Fächerverbünde, edited by Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Doreen Bormann, Samia Dinkelaker, Paula Edling, Tom Fixemer, Helen Schwenken, Elisabeth Tuider, 67–68. Kassel, Osnabrück, Tübingen: Universities of Kassel, Osnabrück, and Tübingen.

Online Resources

Dinkelaker, Samia. 2017. “Migrantinnen – Besonderheiten weiblicher Migration (Female Migrants – Particularities of Female Migration),” Migration, edited by Marcel Berlinghoff, Berlin: Federal Agency for Civic Education. http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/dossier-migration/223157/migrantinnen

Dinkelaker, Samia, Ferdiansyah Thajib, and Thomas Stodulka. 2016. “Ethnolab – A Workshop for Fieldwork and Ethnography. Editorial.” Yogyakarta: Kunci Cultural Studies Center. http://ethnolab.kunci.or.id/2016/02/06/editorial-note/

Stodulka, Thomas, Samia Dinkelaker, and Ferdiansyah Thajib. 2016. “Behind the Scences: Reflective Accounts on Ethnolab” (with Thomas Stodulka and Ferdiansyah Thajib), ethnolab. Yogyakarta: Kunci Cultural Studies Center. http://ethnolab.kunci.or.id/2016/02/11/reflective-accounts/

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