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Between the Village and the Global City: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore

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Published by Harriet Phipps

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2018

by Simon Peth, Harald Sterly and Patrick Sakapoldrak

This paper explores the mobilities and structural moorings of Thai labour migrants in Singapore from a translocal perspective. We argue that combining the mobilities paradigm with the concept of translocality offers a fruitful avenue of investigation not only of the production of translocal spaces, but also of their temporality and mutability. Through a multi-sited research approach we shed light on the genesis as well as the decay of translocal connections. This paper shows that translocal structures are important moorings of migration, and raises the question of what happens to translocal spaces when migration flows dissolve.

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/272544762" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/272544762">Video Abstract - Between the village and the global city</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/taylorandfrancis">Taylor & Francis</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

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