Essays about: "Northeastern Thailand"

Found 4 essays containing the words Northeastern Thailand.

1. 1. Solidarity in Conflict - Organised non-EEA workers, trade unions and labour rights within the Swedish wild berry industry

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Tilly Nygren Laestander; [2021]
   Keywords : Labour rights; Sweden; Thailand; Seasonal Migrant Workers; Trade Unions; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Every year, around 3000-6000 mainly low-income farmers, travel from Northeastern Thailand in search for wild berries in the rural parts of Northern Sweden. There has been a process of inclusion of these seasonal migrant workers into the Swedish labour market structure, since around the turn of the millennium. READ MORE

3. 2. Thai local brokers in the Swedish berry industry : Roles and positions across time and space

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

   Author : Peter van Eerbeek; [2019]
   Keywords : migration; labour; broker; precarity; intermediaries; berry; industry; Thailand; Sweden; precarity; mobility; seasonal work; debt;

   Abstract : Over the last decade, each year 2500 - 6000 Thai go to Sweden to work as berry pickers during the berry season via a regulated system of temporary work permits. Bangkok-based staffing agencies rely on the networks of local brokers to recruit workers in Thailand’s more peripheral northeastern Isan region, as part of the larger migration industry in Thailand. READ MORE

4. 3. Migration and Political Engagement in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : David Sims; [2015]
   Keywords : urbanism; education; vote-buying; democracy; demonstrations; politics; migration; Isan; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis describes how the migration of people from Isan, the northeastern region of Thailand to Bangkok have allowed them to ‘learn the rules of the [political] game’ (Bourdieu, 1990), and make increasingly vociferous political claims. The thesis describes the political diversity, and the political impacts of migration found within Ubon Ratchathani province, in Village Ban, Amphoe Mueang, and among current migrants from there who are living in Bangkok. READ MORE

5. 4. Climate and Environmental Changes in Northeastern Thailand - The Record of Lake Pa Kho.

   University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

   Author : Md Al Mamunul Haque; [2012]
   Keywords : Lake Pa Kho; Monsoon variability; Lake sediments; Geochemical variables; 14C dating; Northeastern Thailand;

   Abstract : Lake Pa Kho is a fresh water lake in Northeastern Thailand, where the East Asian summer monsoon prevails. The monsoon climate and associated variability has tremendous impacts on the life and environmental aspects of the region. READ MORE