African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration Goździak Elżbieta M.
African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration Goździak Elżbieta M. This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyzes the experiences of African migrants in…
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African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility, and Integration Goździak Elżbieta M.
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. 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. 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.
The book also includes theoretical contributions to the understanding of precarity and human security, the concept of in/visibility to analyze the