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Drawing on fieldwork in three villages in Northeast Thailand where domestic and some international migration are commonplace, this report focuses on two often under-examined aspects of migration: the affects of migration, and in particular the affective labour that makes migration possible; and the effects of migration on farming and agriculture.
Migration has manifold, under-appreciated impacts on those who remain in the village, whose futures may be curtailed and aspirations thwarted. Non-migrants are not just ‘left behind’ in the passive sense, they may experience migration as actively constraining and limiting. There are also hidden effects of migration on farming that run counter to agrarian transition pathways promoted by many governments and multilateral agencies. In this paper, the authors conclude by identifying three gaps in migration research that sit behind the discussion of the affects and effects of migration: the gap between production/work and reproduction/care; between migrants/the mobile and non-migrants/the immobile; and between migrant and non-migrant spaces.
Media coverage / SEI Research Fellow Sara Vigil talks to PBS News Hour on how climate change affects migration.
Past event / The AgriFoSe2030 team invites you to join us for the launch of the perspectives report on approaches to navigating food crises in SSA and SE Asia.
Project / SEI is working with Thailand’s energy ministry and national electric utility to conduct integrated resource and resilience planning for the Thai power system.
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