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African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration (Routledge Series on Asian Migration) by Elżbieta M. Goździak; Supang Chantavanich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration (Routledge Series on Asian Migration) about?

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in Thailand. Thailand has always been a regional migration hub with Africans being the most recent. Sitting at the intersection of race and migration studies, this book focuses on the challenges Black and labor migrants face trying to integrate into a society that has had very limited contact with and knowledge about Black Africans. Bringing together research from African, Thai, and European scholars, this volume focuses on forced migrants, such as Somali asylum seekers, and labor migrants, largely African men seeking better livelihoods in niche economies such as gem trading, garment wholesale, and football playing and coaching. The book also includes theoretical contributions to the understanding of precarity and human security, the concept of in/visibility to analyze the challenges African migrants face in Thailand as well as the concept of othering to understand discrimination against Africans. The book also analyzes the Thai migration policy context and the challenges facing Thai policy-makers, law enforcement representatives, and the migrants themselves. While not comparative in

Who reads African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration (Routledge Series on Asian Migration)?

Author

Elżbieta M. Goździak; Supang Chantavanich

Publisher

Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032261089

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Sociology