BARE LIFE of Thai Migrant Workmen in Singapore, The ASEAN many local communities have devised

many local communities have devised conservation measures that regulate the timing and extent of fishing

Richard Ruth shows how the Thais were transformed by living amongst the modern goods and war machinery of the Americans and by traversing the jungle haunted by indigenous spirits

at the London School of Economics

and high levels of domestic violence can be called ‘peaceful’

King Norodom’s Head deals with sights of Phnom Penh rarely found in guidebooks

BARE LIFE of Thai Migrant Workmen in Singapore, The ASEAN many local communities have devisedTransnational labor migration often begins with the dream of securing a more stable and prosperous future, a chance to survive. The lure of global cities as a place to attain that dream looms large within the context of rural urban migration flows. This book reveals some of the complex phenomena and processes that strip bare the lives and dreams of migrant workers living abroad, whose life experiences are overwhelmingly dominated by stress and