BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SEA Junction - ECPv4.9.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:SEA Junction X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://seajunction.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for SEA Junction BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:"Asia/Krasnoyarsk" BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0700 TZOFFSETTO:+0700 TZNAME:+07 DTSTART:20160101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID="Asia/Krasnoyarsk":20161120T163000 DTEND;TZID="Asia/Krasnoyarsk":20161127T183000 DTSTAMP:20260810T151126 CREATED:20161102T095434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161124T034337Z UID:3302-1479659400-1480271400@seajunction.org 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 CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID="Asia/Krasnoyarsk":20161125T130000 DTEND;TZID="Asia/Krasnoyarsk":20161125T160000 DTSTAMP:20260810T151126 CREATED:20161013T050357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161114T072206Z UID:3160-1480078800-1480089600@seajunction.org SUMMARY:Lecture on Migration in Southeast Asia for Students of MA in Southeast Asia Studies\, Chulalongkorn University DESCRIPTION:Date: 25 November 2016\nTime 1 PM to 4 PM\nOrganizers: SEA Junction and MA in Southeast Asia Studies Program\, Chulalongkorn University \nLecture on Migration in Southeast Asia for Students of MA in Southeast Asia Studies\, Chulalongkorn University \nThe MA in Southeast Asia Studies program has two main objectives: 1) to help develop professional academics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies\, and 2) to give people a profound understanding of Southeast Asia and the issues which concern it. One of these issue is migration\, with millions of people migrating within the region in search of better opportunities\, but too often falling pray to exploitation and abuses. \nThe lecture to be given by the Founder and Executive Director of SEA Junction\, Rosalia Sciortino for students of the MA in Southeast Asia Studies on 25 November 2016 at 1 PM to 4 PM at SEA Junction will provide an overview of intraregional migration and the policy currently in place at the national and regional levels.  Information will also be provided on resources available at SEA Junction and how to access by students during their study. \nPhoto: John Hulme for the “Beyond Tolerance: Living with Migrants” Exhibition held by the Mekong Migration Network (MMN) and SEA Junction on 8-16 October 2016 at SEA Junction\, BACC \n URL:https://seajunction.org/event/lecture-migration-southeast-asia-students-ma-southeast-asia-studies-chulalongkorn-university/ LOCATION:BACC\, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre 939 Rama 1 Road\, Wangmai Pathumwan\, Bangkok\, Bangkok\, Thailand CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR