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Panel: Cross-stressing in the Periphery – Historic Migratory Populations & Practices along the Myanmar-Thailand Border

March 6, 2021
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Sessions 19 & 25: Saturday, 6 March, 13.30-15.00 and 15.15-16.45 Convened by Thanyarat Apiwong, Department of History, Chiang Mai University and Thomas Bruce, Thammasat University The papers of this panel examine the histories of transnational communities in Myanmar and Thailand as places of crossroads activity and sites of cross-cultural interaction. They examine different communities that have negotiated cultural enclaves and bring to the fore aspects of their cultural repertoire to suit the occasion. The papers reflect the mixture of stability, plurality, and flexibility of various communities in key areas, namely local production, trade, and consumption, including Chinese migrant involvement, varieties...

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Panel: Voices from the Margin – Disability and Inequality in Myanmar

March 6, 2021
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Session 14, Saturday 6 March 10.45 - 12.15 Convened and chaired by Mike Griffiths, Social Policy & Poverty Research Group This panel first presents an overview of a decade of research on disability and inequality in Myanmar, particularly looking at the intersection of gender, disability and geography. This is followed by an in-depth study of disability and self-identity, exploring how religious beliefs intersect with gender to shape the narratives of disabilities amongst people with disabilities and their near-community. The third paper follows this, looking more specifically at how autism is constructed narratively, attempting to analyze the curious phenomenon of the...

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Plenary: Reflections on the Military Coup and CDM in Myanmar

March 5, 2021
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Saturday begins with the ICBMS3 plenary session, “Reflections on the military coup and Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar” with three speakers taking on the elephant in the room: the coup and the anti-coup CDM movement. Speakers include: Dr. Khin Mar Mar Kyi, International Gender Studies, The University of Oxford, “Thanakha's Defiance: Generations, Gender & Social Movement in Myanmar against the Military Regime” Naw May Oo Mutraw, Senior Policy Advisor, The Salween Institute for Public Policy, “Burma: a Chronic Constitutional Crisis and a Call for a New Political Culture” Dr. Ashley South, Research Fellow, Chiang Mai University"Reflections on the Military coup,...

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Panel: COVID-19, Myanmar Migration, Risks & Resilience

January 11, 2021
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Difficulties and problems of social inequality, migration, and degradation of resources are seen throughout Myanmar. Cross-border migration, Foreign Direct Investment in Special Economic Zones, and now the Covid-19 pandemic are issues of concern for all partners—from state officers, academia, and the private sector—to assure sustainable and inclusive development in Myanmar. Photo: Yawng Htang for Nikkei Asia This panel will examine Myanmar migration in the context of COVID-19 and how it has affected migrant workers. Impacts on migrant workers are complex and tied to other conditions related to migrant worker vulnerability: health access, economic inequality, migration status, working and employment conditions,...

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