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Stretching the Border: Confinement, Mobility and the Refugee Public among Karen Refugees in Thailand and Burma
Ist Teil von
Journal of borderlands studies, 2014-01, Vol.29 (1), p.47-61
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
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In this paper, I hope to add a complementary perspective to James Scott's recent work on avoidance strategies of subaltern mountain people by focusing on what I call the refugee public. The educated Karen elite uses the space of exile in the Thai borderland to reconstitute resources and to re-enter Karen state in Eastern Burma as humanitarians, providing medical, educational resources and help to document human rights violations and do advocacy work. In addition, local missionaries and faith-based groups also use the corridor to spread the word of God. I argue that Karen humanitarian community-based organizations succeed to stretch the border by establishing a firm presence that is supported by the international humanitarian economy in the refugee camps in Northwestern Thailand.