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Chapitre d'ouvrage Année : 2021

Urban Enclaves

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Corrugated iron barracks, hosting migrant workers and others in precarious conditions, are common in Bangkok. Th e forms of social organization in these urban enclaves seem entangled with many of the major issues related to contemporary migratory fl ows. None of these issues, however, is suffi cient to defi ne the intrinsic specifi city of the enclaves, especially when compared to other forms of urban habitat where migrant workers reside. It is elsewhere, towards other conceptual horizons, that we must turn to understand the modus operandi of the Bangkok enclaves, where a majority of inhabitants are migrant workers. We must turn to a multi-sited approach of social crossroads, from rural to urban, between autochthony and transnationalism. Especially since there is a shared cosmopolitan condition drawing a line of continuity between the villages of the highlands of Burma and these enclaves of the Thai megalopolis. This chapter highlights the very recent emergence and multiplication of enclaves in various districts at the center of Bangkok and outlines their geomorphology. The relationships of enclave-residing migrant workers with the associative environment is analyzed to allow us to better understand these urban enclaves and their paradoxical status as territories of desocialization.
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halshs-03466154, version 1 (04-12-2021)

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François Robinne. Urban Enclaves: New Forms of Precarity for Exiled Workers in Bangkok. Tony Waters, Ashley South, Chayan Vaddhanaphuti. Moving around Myanmar : migration in, from, and back to Burma, Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), pp.31-60, 2021, 978-616-398-635-1. ⟨halshs-03466154⟩
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