Lives at the Mae Sai Border: Tai Lue Transnational Migrants and Ethnic Network as Resource

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  • 文化資源の観点からみたタイ・ルーの国境を越える移動と民族的なネットワーク ーメーサイ国境域の事例

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A border is an area where an ongoing flow of people and goods and an abundance of multi-culture can be found, as well as a location for displaced persons, migrants, and migrant workers. In such a context, various cultural practices of people exist who have a different historical background of mobility, exile, and transitional experience. Under these circumstances, I investigate and explore the livelihoods of the recent Tai Lue migrants who live along the Thai-Myamnar border in the northern part of Thailand, and who have a range of professions; we find, for example, a singer and a monk, as well as an activist-who is a Tai Lue town ruler descendant-among them. I examine the ethnic network utilized as a resource -together with other types of networks -by those Tai Lue migrants who live in a border context in pursuit of a decent life and economic or social opportunity. The study suggests that borders are a transition zone where the interplay of many actors shapes their lives for better circumstances. The Tai Lue ethnic network is one of the vital basic resources used in different ways to acquire a different opportunity: to transform one's original status or position to a new, more favorable one.

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