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Paskaita 15.30-16.30
Dreaming of Elsewhere: Indonesia’s Digital Migration Imaginary through #KaburAjaDulu
The lecture examines how Indonesian youth articulate migration not merely as a legal or economic decision, but as an affective and cultural response to precarity, stagnation, and blocked futures. Focusing on the viral hashtag #KaburAjaDulu (“Just Run Away First”) on X (formerly Twitter), the research explores how digital platforms function as spaces where migration is imagined, negotiated, and emotionally narrated.
Rather than signalling a definitive rejection of the homeland, the hashtag reflects a temporal and affective withdrawal – a way of preserving aspiration when meaningful reform appears unattainable in the present. Drawing on qualitative discourse analysis, the lecture discusses themes such as emotional exhaustion, desire for recognition, and the rejection of nationalist meritocratic promises. By situating Indonesia within broader debates on non-Western migration regimes, postcolonial governance, and youth mobility, the lecture invites reflection on migration as a way of reimagining the self in relation to uncertain futures.
Apie pranešėją:
Dr. Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih (Arum) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia). She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on diaspora, migration, memory, and postcolonial and transnational contexts. She is currently a visiting researcher at Vilnius University within the MARS project (Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective), coordinated by VU IIRPS.
Diskusija 16.30-17.30
The lecture will be followed by a discussion on research secondment experiences and fieldwork across non-Western contexts, with contributions from:
Dr. Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih, Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
Dr. Kristina Šliavaitė, Associate Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University
Dr. Kristina Garalytė, Associate Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University
Dr. Irma Mačkinė, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy & Coordinator of MARS project at IIRPS, Vilnius University
The discussion will reflect on research design, positionality, and methodological as well as ethical challenges encountered during international research secondments.