Surviving Dispossession: Burmese Migrants in Thailand's Border Economic Zones Page 1
Persistent link: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104231 This work is posted on eScholarship@BC …

This paper asks how gender and sexuality are important tools on which migrants rely to
make meaning in a context of displacement. Relying on a case study of Burmese migrants in …

In the context of the troubled Burma-Thailand borderland relationship, the “place” of the
migrant is greatly influenced by the highly contingent nature of cross-border politics and inter …

In Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier,
Adam P. Saltsman examines the implications of forced displacement on migrant lives in …

Rural-urban migration has helped to fuel Thailand's recent economic boom. Migrants, many
of whom are young and female, constitute a cheap and easily replaceable work force for …

In Northeast Thailand gendered patterns of labor migration insert rural residents into
privileged sites of national and international progress; yet, migrants and their families remain …

Abstract Mary Rose Geraldine aims to draw out the parallel experiences of migrant women
Filipina and Burmese domestic workers, in Bangkok, Thailand. She looks at the …

Based on research among internally displaced people in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, this
chapter examines the intentions of those seeking refuge. It explains that although some …

Human trafficking is constructed both by states and experts as a problem involving 'a
disproportionate number of women', the majority of whom are trafficked for 'sexual …

In 2014, Thailand experienced the mass exodus of 220,000 Cambodian migrant workers, an
event precipitated by a military coup and rumors of an impending migrant crackdown. This …