Thai-Western Mobilities and Migration: Intimacy within Cross-Border Connections

ISBN-13: 9781032037417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 156 str.

Paul Statham; Sarah Scuzzarello; Sirijit Sunanta

Opis

The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between ‘ordinary’ people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and ‘the West’.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Globalising Thailand through gendered ‘both- ways’ migration pathways with ‘the West’: cross- border connections between people, states, and places 2. Globalising the Thai ‘high- touch’ industry: exports of care and body work and gendered mobilities to and from Thailand 3. Living the long- term consequences of Thai- Western marriage migration: the radical life- course transformations of women who partner older Westerners 4. Thai wives in Europe and European husbands in Thailand: how social locations shape their migration experiences and engagement with host societies 5. Practising privilege. How settling in Thailand enables older Western migrants to enact privilege over local people 6. Transnational intimacy and economic precarity of western men in northeast Thailand 7. Intergenerational strategies: the successes and failures of a Northern Thai family’s approach to international labour migration 135