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UID:transnational-living-cross-border-connections-and-socially-embedded-exchanges-between-thailand-and-europe-1
SUMMARY:Transnational Living, Cross-Border Connections and Socially Embedded Exchanges Between Thailand and Europe (1)
LOCATION:Room 1.201
DESCRIPTION:Today, some partnerships between Thai women and Westerners have
  lasted for more than a quarter of a century. Early pioneers acted as inter
 mediaries and facilitated more partnerships by introducing friends and kin 
 from across national borders and showing them the ropes. In this way, cross
 -border partnerships have produced specific migration streams, that have gr
 own significantly over time and importantly transformed the social fabric o
 f the transnational localities and “linked lives” that they have produced. 
 At the same time, increasing numbers of European retirees settle in Thailan
 d to benefit from affordable healthcare, while new sectors of service provi
 sion are emerging on the periphery of the tourist industry selling services
  of “Thai-ness” (massage, spirituality) to Western tourists. This panel aim
 s to study cases of lived experiences of “transnationalism” between Thailan
 d and European countries, that are increasingly prevalent in Thailand and E
 urope, initiated by the significant and longstanding forms of mobility and 
 migration related to marriage, life- style, student education, retirement, 
 sex-tourism and healthcare. How does “transnational living” between Thailan
 d and Europe become manifest as a social form within space and place, and w
 ith what consequences for the individuals involved? What gendered power ine
 qualities are at the core of Thai-Westerner exchanges? From the Thai perspe
 ctive, what are the long-term impacts of these exchanges for individual lif
 e chances and wellbeing, on extended families, and on the communities and s
 ocieties where they are embedded? Cases include Thai-Western long-term part
 nerships in Thailand, Thai marriage migrants to the UK, child migration to 
 Germany, European retirees in Pattaya, Thai women in Belgium and small-scal
 e entrepreneurs serving Western Tourists in Hua Hin.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/transnational-living-cross-border-connections-and-socially-embedded-exchanges-between-thailand-and-europe
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T090000
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UID:transnational-living-cross-border-connections-and-socially-embedded-exchanges-between-thailand-and-europe-2
SUMMARY:Transnational Living, Cross-Border Connections and Socially Embedded Exchanges Between Thailand and Europe (2)
LOCATION:Room 1.201
DESCRIPTION:Today, some partnerships between Thai women and Westerners have
  lasted for more than a quarter of a century. Early pioneers acted as inter
 mediaries and facilitated more partnerships by introducing friends and kin 
 from across national borders and showing them the ropes. In this way, cross
 -border partnerships have produced specific migration streams, that have gr
 own significantly over time and importantly transformed the social fabric o
 f the transnational localities and “linked lives” that they have produced. 
 At the same time, increasing numbers of European retirees settle in Thailan
 d to benefit from affordable healthcare, while new sectors of service provi
 sion are emerging on the periphery of the tourist industry selling services
  of “Thai-ness” (massage, spirituality) to Western tourists. This panel aim
 s to study cases of lived experiences of “transnationalism” between Thailan
 d and European countries, that are increasingly prevalent in Thailand and E
 urope, initiated by the significant and longstanding forms of mobility and 
 migration related to marriage, life- style, student education, retirement, 
 sex-tourism and healthcare. How does “transnational living” between Thailan
 d and Europe become manifest as a social form within space and place, and w
 ith what consequences for the individuals involved? What gendered power ine
 qualities are at the core of Thai-Westerner exchanges? From the Thai perspe
 ctive, what are the long-term impacts of these exchanges for individual lif
 e chances and wellbeing, on extended families, and on the communities and s
 ocieties where they are embedded? Cases include Thai-Western long-term part
 nerships in Thailand, Thai marriage migrants to the UK, child migration to 
 Germany, European retirees in Pattaya, Thai women in Belgium and small-scal
 e entrepreneurs serving Western Tourists in Hua Hin.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/transnational-living-cross-border-connections-and-socially-embedded-exchanges-between-thailand-and-europe
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