Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia
Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes, and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized workforce, contestation over resource access, and the juxtaposition of culturally different groups. At the same time, everyday mobility stretches the spatial boundaries of village and family life. The bounded space of the village is no longer adequate to understand the dynamics that are driving (and resulting from) rural social change. This collection of original studies explores the cultural, economic, and environmental dimensions of intensifying migration and mobility in rural Southeast Asia at multiple scales. Diverse processes are explored including ruralurban flows, ruralrural movement, everyday mobilities, and international migrations into regional and global labor markets. Drawing on fieldwork in six countries across the region, these essays also explore what migration means for our understanding of class, citizenship, gender, and the state in a rapidly changing part of the world.
The chapters in this book were first published as articles in two issues of Critical Asian Studies: December 2011 (43:4) and March 2012 (44:1).
Philip F. Kelly is associate professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Canada, and director of the York Centre for Asian Research. His research is based in Southeast Asia and in Canada and concerns issues of labor, culture, and class in processes of migration, transnationalism, and immigrant settlement. He is author of Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000) and coauthor (with Neil Coe and Henry Yeung) of Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (Wiley, 2013). Email: pfkelly@yorku.ca.
MIGRATION, AGRARIAN TRANSITION, AND RURAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Contents
Philip F. Kelly
Derek Hall
Sai S.W. Latt
Jonathan Rigg and Albert Salamanca
Adam Lukasiewicz
Hew Cheng Sim
Keith Barney
Mary Beth Mills
Tubtim Tubtim
Rebecca Elmhirst
The following chapters were originally published in Critical Asian Studies. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Migration, Agrarian Transition and Rural Change in Southeast Asia: Introduction. Philip F. Kelly. Critical Asian Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2011), pp. 479506.
Chapter 2
Where the Streets Are Paved with Prawns: Crop Booms and Migration in Southeast Asia. Derek Hall. Critical Asian Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2011), pp. 507530.
Chapter 3
More than Culture, Gender, and Class: Erasing Shan Labor in the Success of Thailands Royal Development Project. Sai S.W. Latt. Critical Asian Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2011), pp. 531550.
Chapter 4
Connecting Lives, Living, and Location: Mobility and Spatial Signatures in Northeast Thailand, 19822009. Jonathan Rigg and Albert Salamanca. Critical Asian Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2011), pp. 551575.
Chapter 5
Migration and Gender Identity in the Rural Philippines: Households with Farming Wives and Migrant Husbands. Adam Lukasiewicz. Critical Asian Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2011), pp. 577593.
Chapter 6
Coping with Change: Rural Transformation and Women in Contemporary Sarawak, Malaysia. Hew Cheng Sim. Critical Asian Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2011), pp. 595616.
Chapter 7
Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth Out-migration across the LaoThai Mekong Border. Keith Barney. Critical Asian Studies, volume 44, issue 1 (2012), pp. 5783.
Chapter 8
Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship. Mary Beth Mills. Critical Asian Studies, volume 44, issue 1 (2012), pp. 85112.
Chapter 9
Migration to the Countryside: Class Encounters in Peri-urban Chiang Mai, Thailand. Tubtim Tubtim. Critical Asian Studies, volume 44, issue 1 (2012), pp. 113130.
Chapter 10
Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-local Livelihoods: Positioning Migrant Legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia. Rebecca Elmhirst. Critical Asian Studies, volume 44, issue 1 (2012), pp. 131152.
Keith Barney has conducted research on the political ecology of forestry and agrarian change in Southeast Asia for more than fourteen years, including fieldwork in Lao PDR, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In 2011, he defended his PhD dissertation, entitled Grounding Global Forest Economies: Resource Governance and Commodity Power in Rural Laos. From January to July 2012, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He is currently a Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australia National University, in Canberra. Email: keith.barney@anu.edu.au.
Rebecca Elmhirst is a human geographer based at the University of Brighton in the UK. She has published widely on the connections between migration, gender relations, and the politics of natural resource governance in Southeast Asia. She is coeditor (with Ratna Saptari) of Labour in Southeast Asia (Routledge) and (with Bernadette Resurreccion) of Gender and Natural Resource Management in Asia: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions (Earthscan, IDRC and ISEAS). Email: R.J.Elmhirst@brighton.ac.uk.
