This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo). First, the article builds upon literatures of precarity and global cities to detail the complexity of urban spaces in relation to migration, and draws upon understandings of political mobilisation to explain homeland activism among non-citizen populations. It then focuses respectively on Bangkok and Tokyo, demonstrating the ways in which migrants from Burma of varying precarity utilise or forgo urban structures in each city. The article concludes that precarity does not necessarily reduce homeland activism, ...
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This research note focuses on the far-flung Burmese overseas communities, situating them into...
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This article interrogates the link between urbanity and ‘precarity of place’ for non-citizen populat...
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Contains fulltext : 205905.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Many large citi...
In this article, we foreground chronopolitics – the politics of time – to examine the ways in which ...
Global urbanization led to a rather new phenomenon: urban refugees, who live on the margins of big c...
In recent decades, Bangkok’s Japanese community has undergone an unprecedented growth, with its offi...
This research note focuses on the far-flung Burmese overseas communities, situating them into...
This article uses the case of Thailand’s two economic policies –the border Special Economic Zones an...
This article interrogates the link between urbanity and ‘precarity of place’ for non-citizen populat...
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia ha...
According to recent statistics published by the International Labor Organization, it is estimated th...
Workshop 1. Session 1.2: Segregation and strategies of gating and withdrawal. Abstract: Over the yea...
The past decade has seen the rapid development of transnationalism research, but transnationalism fr...
This paper brings together literature from urban and refugee studies, aiming to contribute new theor...
This article explores the experiences of recent returnees from Thailand to Southeast Myanmar and the...
This paper explores the consequences of Japan's refugee policy for Burmese refugees living in Tokyo...
This paper discusses neoliberalism's effects on migrants in Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar bord...
Contains fulltext : 205905.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Many large citi...
In this article, we foreground chronopolitics – the politics of time – to examine the ways in which ...
Global urbanization led to a rather new phenomenon: urban refugees, who live on the margins of big c...
In recent decades, Bangkok’s Japanese community has undergone an unprecedented growth, with its offi...
This research note focuses on the far-flung Burmese overseas communities, situating them into...
This article uses the case of Thailand’s two economic policies –the border Special Economic Zones an...