Uncertain lives changing borders and mobility in the borderlands of the Upper Mekong

Inhaltsangabe: “… Living in fear of violence at the Thai-Burma border / Paiboon Hengsuwan -- The ethnic identities of Han settlers along the China-Myanmar border during the twentieth century / Bai Zhihang -- Trans-border trade, changing gender roles and empowerment : Tai traders along the Yunnan-Burma border / Aranya Siriphan -- Memory, status and identity : a psychological investigation of people living in the neighboring border areas of Vietnam and Yunnan Province in China / Gu Jiarong -- Traditional inertia and a reality choice : a study of Vietnamese Zhuang wives' quasi-affinity in the Yunnan-Vietnamese border area / Wang Yueping -- Transnational ethnic flows and national identity construction : the case of a Miao/Hmong village / Zheng Yu and Zeng Ying -- An intrusion into the transnational kitchen : the foodways of Shan labor migrants in urban Chiang Mai, Thailand / Busarin Lertchavalitsakul -- Reserving ideality home : going down to Burma for the Heshunnese Family prior to the 1950s / He Lin -- Re-emplacing homeland : mobility, locality, a returned exile and a Thai restaurant in Southwest China / Wasan Panyagaew -- Tai Lue traditions in the transnational world : a study of Tai Lue communities in the United States of America / Nanshan Kang …”