Migration, agrarian transition, and rural change in southeast Asia / edited with an introduction by Philip F. Kelly. - xiii, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.

Introduction : migration, agrarian transition, and rural change in southeast Asia / Where the streets are paved with prawns : crop booms and migration in southeast Asia / More than culture, gender, and class : erasing Shan labor in the'success' of Thailand's Royal Development Project / Connecting lives, living, and location : mobility and spatial signatures in northeast Thailand, 1982-2009 / Migration and gender identity in the rural Philippines : households with farming wives and migrant husbands / Coping with change : rural transformation and women in contemporary Sarawak, Malaysia / Land, livelihoods, and remittances : a political ecology of youth out-migration across the Lao-Thai Mekong border / Thai mobilities and cultural citizenship / Migration to the countryside : class encounters in peri-urban Chiang Mai, Thailand / Displacement, resettlement, and multi-local livelihoods : positioning migrant legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia / Philip F. Kelly -- Derek Hall -- Sai S.W. Latt -- Jonathan Rigg and Albert Salamanca -- Adam Lukasiewicz -- Hew Cheng Sim -- Keith Barney -- Mary Beth Mills -- Tubtim Tubtim -- Rebecca Elmhirst.

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Migration, Internal--Southeast Asia.
Rural-urban migration--Southeast Asia.
Urban-rural migration--Southeast Asia.
Land reform--Southeast Asia.
Land use, Rural--Southeast Asia.


Southeast Asia--Rural conditions.
Southeast Asia--Emigration and immigration.