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Effects of Urban Expansion and Cultural Hierarchies on Labor Strategies within Thailand's Rural?Urban Interface |
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| Creator | Gregory Gullette and Sayamon Singto |
| Title | Effects of Urban Expansion and Cultural Hierarchies on Labor Strategies within Thailand's Rural?Urban Interface |
| Publisher | The Thai Association of the Population and Social Researchers |
| Publication Year | 2558 |
| Journal Title | Journal of Population and Social Studies |
| Journal Vol. | 23 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 146-167 |
| Keyword | Thailand, urbanization, migration, remittances, labor diversification |
| ISSN | 0857-717X |
| Abstract | This paper explores agrarian families' use of labor diversification under conditions of environmental,political, and socioeconomic changes introduced through Thai urbanization policies. Building fromliteratures in development, livelihood, and migration studies, this research analyzes how state-plannedurban expansion in Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima province) alters land allocations, natural resourceavailabilities, and household labor organization among agriculturalists. Though stratified by classand land holdings, agrarian households' livelihoods demonstrated both degrees of dependence onnatural resource availabilities and increased exposures to the Thai state's urban expansion policies andchanging broader political economies. However, while state development may be viewed as coercivestructural forces underpinning contemporary labor flexibilities due to the alteration of land tenure,resource availabilities, and economic systems, complex individual and household agendas shapedpeople's participation in and understanding of labor diversification. Ethnographic data demonstratedtoo the ways in which migration decisions and household provisioning strategies reflected people'sunderstandings of Thai socio-political and cultural systems. By exploring people's engagement withculturally constructed social hierarchies, notions of modernity, and ideas of state development, thisresearch demonstrates how cultural aspirations shape labor mobilities and remittance behaviors withinagrarian transitions. |
