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CPRI 23: Impact of Social-Economic Remittances on Social Mobility in Cambodia

CPRI 23: Impact of Social-Economic Remittances on Social Mobility in Cambodia

Ethnographic Insights from Two Migrant-sending Villages Through looking at remittances from the perspective of two migrant…

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UMD 26: Tradition and Modernity in Ta’ang Tea Cultivation

UMD 26: Tradition and Modernity in Ta’ang Tea Cultivation

Gendered Forms of Knowledge, Ecology, Migration and Practice in Kyushaw Village Kyushaw village, a small Ta’ang…

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UMD 25: Education amid Renunciation

UMD 25: Education amid Renunciation

The Movement of Young Ta'ang Girls from Conflict Areas to Mandalay's Nunneries This research provides an…

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UMD 24: Fight or Flight

UMD 24: Fight or Flight

Land Grabbing in the Development of Mandalay's International Airport and the Local Fight for Justice Rural…

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UMD 23: Giving to Myanmar’s ‘Living Image’

UMD 23: Giving to Myanmar’s ‘Living Image’

The Mahamuni Pagoda's Votive Networks and Management in a New Age of Urban Development The Mahamuni…

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UMD 22: Negotiated Spaces and Kyukyaw Liminalities

UMD 22: Negotiated Spaces and Kyukyaw Liminalities

Life and Community in the Informal Settlements of Mandalay's Ayeyarwady Riverbank Focused on two adjacent riverbank…

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UMD 21: Dam Displacement and Local Power

UMD 21: Dam Displacement and Local Power

Ruptured Villages and Widened Inequalities in the Localized Resettlement and Compensation Process of the Upper Paunglaung…

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Moving Around Myanmar

Moving Around Myanmar

Migration in, from, and back to Burma "Moving Around Myanmar" is available now! A collected volume…

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