Michele Fordis Associate Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement and organized labour's responses to temporary labour migration in East and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement(NUS/Hawaii/KITLV 2009) and co-editor of Women and Work in Indonesia(Routledge 2008); Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism(Routledge 2008); Indonesia Beyond the Water's Edge: Managing an Archipelagic State(ISEAS 2009); Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia(Routledge 2012) and Labour Migration and Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives(Routledge 2012).