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SUMMARY:Photo Exhibition and Documentary “The Campers: Micro-Cosmopolitanism of the Refugee’s World”
DESCRIPTION:Long before Thailand became a magnet for labor migration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region\, it was the main destination for flows spurred by conflict and war. Yet\, Thailand does not subscribe to international refugee conventions and does not formally recognize refugees. So-called displaced persons from Myanmar are placed in camps near the border the first of which was “temporarily” built in Tak Province in 1984 with other located in Mae Hong Son\, Kanchanaburi and Ratchaburi provinces. In the camps de facto refugees are protected from arrest\, but without freedom to move or work. Outside of the camps\, they may have more freedom\, but be exposed to even less legal recognition and more risks of abuses and deportation. \nThis borderline situation in both symbolic and physical terms is the focus of the collaboration of SEA Junction and the Center for ASEAN Studies of Chiang Mai University (CAS) entitled “The Campers: Micro-Cosmopolitanism of the Refugee’s World”\, consisting of a photo exhibition and documentary screening and related discussions. \nThe photo exhibition on 20-27 November at SEA Junction is part of field research conducted in between 2011 and 2015 on displaced persons from Burma\, including Karen and Rohingya in and outside of the refugee camp by the anthropologists cum photographers\, Samak Kosem and Kunnawut Boonreak. \nThe opening event will take place on 4.30-6.30PM on 20 November 2016 at SEA Junction and will include a panel by the photographers\, art lecturer and artist Nipan Oranniwesn (Visual Arts Department\, School of Fine and Applied Arts\, Bangkok University) and a resource person from the migrant community (tentative) as well as the screening of the documentary “Michael’s” by again Kunnawut Boonreak. \nThe photos show the economic and religious dimensions of life in the camps of Mae La\, Nu Poe and Umpiem\, by contrasting the statelessness of refugees inside and outside the camps with the transnationality of their networks. In their precarity and confined space\, refugees strive for better livelihoods and more hopeful lives. \nWithin this context\, the documentary examines the lives of ‘Michael Right’ and Yameen ‘Michael Muhammad’\, two Rohingya men who have struggled with issues of citizenship and identity while negotiating everyday struggles as an internally displaced person(s). Their story takes place in the heart of Mae Sot and Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp. The two Michaels are both Rohingya but come from different socioeconomic backgrounds. By juxtaposing their two lives\, Boonreak seeks to examine how their socioeconomic status affects issues of citizenship and identity. While citizenship brings one a life outside the camps fences\, the other tries to acquire citizenship from inside the refugee camp. Both have attempted to maintain their Rohingya identity. Each Michael seeks an ‘identity’ that others will accept. Even with their shared religious identity\, that of being a Rohingya Muslim\, their socioeconomic status divides them (for the official trailer see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF9v0voM2dg). \nThe photos and the documentary were partly supported by The Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion\, Dynamics of Exclusion (SEATIDE) and the Southeast Asia Border Research Society (SEABORS). \nOrganizers: SEA Junction — OUR venue to connect on Southeast Asia (see www.seajunction.org) \nCAS — The Center for ASEAN Studies of Chiang Mai University for understanding of ASEAN connectivity and “ASEAN from below”. (see https://www.aseancmu.com) \n \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/photo-exhibition-documentary-campers-micro-cosmopolitanism-refugees-world/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, Room 408\, BACC\, 939 Rama 1 Rd\, Pathum Wan\, Khet Pathum Wan\, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10330 Bangkok\, Thailand\, Bangkok\, Thailand
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SUMMARY:2nd Conversation on Regional Development: Chinese Tourism in Southeast Asia: A Blessing for All?
DESCRIPTION:Today tourism is a buzzword for a quick and easy development paradigm. Yet\, stories of both glory and horror in tourism abound. The glory stories are often related to income and employment generation\, the attraction of foreign exchange\, the opportunities that tourism could provide for regional\, rural and community development\, as well as the opportunity to use tourism as a means for education in history\, culture\, nature and conservation. The horror stories\, on the other hand\, tend to emphasize the unstable nature of tourism\, its possible uneven impact on income distribution in favor of the better-off and its negative impact on society\, culture and the environment. \nThe talk by Prof. Mingsarn Kaosa-ard\, President of the Public Policy Studies Institute Foundation (PPSIF)\, at 5-7.30pm on 22 November at SEA Junction will cover the new face of tourism in SEA dominated by tourists from China and the new opportunities and risks that emerge. \nOrganizers :\nSEA Junction — OUR venue to connect on Southeast Asia (see www.seajunction.org)\nPublic Policy Studies Institute Foundation. (PPSIF) – Aims to foster policy research in the interest of the poor and the vulnerable. (see http://www.ppsi.or.th) \n \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/chinese-tourists-new-opportunities-threats-southeast-asia/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, Room 408\, BACC\, 939 Rama 1 Rd\, Pathum Wan\, Khet Pathum Wan\, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10330 Bangkok\, Thailand\, Bangkok\, Thailand
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