Chuah Hui Yin Following the Indochina War, UNHCR has served as the de facto registration and protection body for refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia since the 1970s, a role the […]
Chuah Hui Yin Following the Indochina War, UNHCR has served as the de facto registration and protection body for refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia since the 1970s, a role the […]
Student Diplacement in Contemporary Myanmar Following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, thousands of university students joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), abandoning their studies and, in many cases, their homes. Some […]
When Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021, the state did not simply change hands. In many places it lost its grip on the ordinary work of public life. Doctors, reporters, […]
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) and Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, in partnership with The National […]
What happens when the state becomes actively hostile or collapses entirely? In large swathes of post-coup Myanmar, conflict has transformed many previously peaceful areas into war zones where everyday life […]
Three new research-based publications are now available from RCSD, focused on a range of issues: from local governance in post-coup Myanmar; the lives of CDM students in exile both internal […]
Join us on Tuesday, 4 August 2026 for a book talk with author Mellisa Crouch for her new work “The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar.” The […]
This new edited volume is the result of the Sino-Thai Summer School that has been taking place between Yunnan University’s School of Ethnology together with RCSD and the Center for […]
This publication presents a collection of collaborative research papers from social science students at Yunnan University and Chiang Mai University examining how ethnic communities of northern Thailand are navigating the […]
On 19 June 2026, to commemorate World Refugee Day, RCSD hosted “Changing Global Order, Aid Retrenchment, and Refugee Protection: Reframing the Right to Work for Myanmar Refugees in Thailand” with […]