Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, August’s activities addressed issues of identity and citizenships exploring politicization of religion and sectarianism in Southeast Asian countries. The panel discussion “Born in Limbo”, on the uncertain legal status of migrant children born in Thailand will have a follow-up this month with a photo-exhibition on the same topic.…
Bangkok is famously known among tourists for its street food. Yet in an attempt to clear some tourist-congested areas
As democracy experiences a global decline, and Southeast Asia oscillates between authoritarian endurance and democratic rollback, civil society in the region is facing a bleak future.
Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, Re-energized by the joyous celebration of our 2nd Anniversary and the constructive 2nd Annual Partner Meeting on 25 June, we look forward to a full and varied program this July. Activities range from a panel discussion on street food in Bangkok and the discussion of a recent book…
Families moved to distant, poorly equipped resettlement areas to make way for railways in the Philippines. Villagers still dealing with the loss of access to livelihood resources decades after dam construction in Thailand.
Waiting, perhaps for something, perhaps for nothing much, perhaps tomorrow, or perhaps never. Being in a permanent state of uncertainty may well be what life is for many urban asylum seekers in Bangkok and other cities in Southeast Asia.
Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, The “ASEAN People in Flux” series and the “Displaced and Uprooted” series take center stage in May with a number of activities that focus on people’s movements in Southeast Asia–forced, reluctant, exploitative and voluntary. An intermezzo, is the shadow play and related workshops by Indonesian artist Jumaadi, His…
Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, April is a month of holidays with Easter and then Thai New Year (Songkran) celebrations and we will be closed on 13-16 April. In this festive spirit, we wish all of you peace and joy in the days ahead. After the vacation, we will launch a new series…
Article by Johanna Son originally published in The Bangkok Post on 26 March 2018 In Asean’s search for a role in the maze that is the political and humanitarian disaster unfolding from Myanmar’s Rakhine crisis, it is finding that some paths are closed off, a few remain passable despite barriers — and others are clear…
