| Summary: | 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, identity
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