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"Beyond Tolerance": Living Together with Migrants Movements of people within and across borders have become an integral feature of regional integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region or GMS, an emerging economic area encompassing the watershed of the Mekong River and comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and two provinces of southern China —Yunnan and Guangxi. After years of relative in-country isolation, millions of people have moved from their place of origin to meet their basic needs and to achieve stability…

The SEA Junction’s Southeast Asia Mini Book Fair is a monthly event on the first weekend of each month in the space in front of SEA Junction, Room 408, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) from 11 am to 7 pm. The Mini Book Fair showcases a limited collection of books on various aspects of Southeast Asia consisting of two kinds of books: (1) New books from Silkworm Books from Thailand, Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia and other recognised  publishers with…

Southeast Asia has been strongly influenced by Buddhism since the 6th century AD. Both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism played important roles in the development of art in the region, as can be seen in Buddha images, stupas and pavilions. All across the countries of Southeast Asia that are predominantly Buddhist such as Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, temples are beautified with various styles of stupas, and also in the other countries in the region ancient stupas are admired for their…

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…

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…

Date: 25 November 2016 Time 1 PM to 4 PM Organizers: SEA Junction and MA in Southeast Asia Studies Program, Chulalongkorn University Lecture on Migration in Southeast Asia for Students of MA in Southeast Asia Studies, Chulalongkorn University The 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…

SEA Junction is collaborating with APCOM and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia Heinrich to organize a public lecture by renowned Indonesian LBGT activist and Chair of APCOM, Dédé Oetomo on 29 November 2016 at 5-7pm. He will provide an in-depth analysis of the wave of attacks to LGBT people and communities in the context of the current socio-political and religious situation of Indonesia. The lecture is part of the 10 year anniversary celebration of APCOM and will also serve…

The lecture to be given by the Founder and Executive Director of SEA Junction, Rosalia Sciortino for students of the MPH in Global Health on 2 December at 2-5pm at SEA Junction will provide an analysis of the impacts of ASEAN regional integration on health and health care in the region. It will discuss the suggested benefits and the potential risk of increased liberalization and commercialization of health care at the regional level. In particular it will be argued that…