Moving lives: migration and livelihoods in the Lao PDR
By J. Rigg. 2007
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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
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- Exit from agriculture: a step forward or a step backward for the rural poor? (2009, background): “In the Mekong region, 1.5 million Burmese and half a million Laotians and Cambodians were working in Thailand in 2008, mostly in agriculture, and most of them illegal.2 Some prosper from this route, while others end up trapped and in debt (Rigg 2007).”
- Centering labor in the land grab debate (2011, background): “Planters objected that if the Javanese were given land, they would not be reliable workers, at least not in the 5World Bank (2008) 208, Rigg (2007), Mosse (2007), Rutherford (2008). short term.”
- To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations (2010, background): “Although these brokers offer them no security, would-be migrants attach themselves loyally, because the alternative—having no broker, and no work—is even worse (Mosse 2007; Rigg 2007).”