Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier

by Adam Saltsman

In rich ethnographic detail, Border Humanitarians explores the narratives of Burmese activists in exile who rely on transnational political and social networks to respond to gender violence among the hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working precariously on the Thai border with Myanmar. The activists this book follows must navigate a multiplicity of representations; they are simultaneously illegal in Thailand, underpaid feminized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815637683
• ISBN13: 9780815637684
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"