ASING DI TANAH ASAL Pergulatan Identitas Petani Bali Eks Transmigran Timor Timur 1999-2005

This thesis examines the identity struggle of Bali migrants in the homeland (1999-2005) after the results announcement of East Timor poll which was won by pro-independence parties. As reification background of �Bali� or ke-�Bali� an and political label in the past, cultural discontinuity experienced when it became transmigrants led to the crisis of identity shown by alienation, poverty, and embarrassed. Identity restorations are undertaken in marginalized conditions from social interaction. Differences perception about \"Bali\" between what is imagined and what is the true happened not always consistent. Therefore, land is a major and the first requirement which aimed not only as a space to show the practice of ke-\"Bali\" an but also as a tool to drop the chain of poverty and do vertical mobility. However, the presence of past legitimized by oral tradition resulted the efforts to become \"Bali\" always get failed. The primary source of the thesis is obtained through interview method, while the secondary source is derived from newspapers, books, articles, reports, and journals. The thesis concludes that a refusal is an attitude which is generated from embodied of past experience reproductive of Balinese thought after the New Order and was influenced by the political tendencies. On the other hand, efforts to restore the identity in the marginalized place is the implications to obscure the presence of people who give discordant noises when they ask for justice. Keywords: Foreign, homeland, identit