Securitizing border-crossing: The case of marginalized stateless minorities in the Thai-Burma Borderlands

• Main Author: Mika, Toyota
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82395; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39960
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines the securitization process of unauthorised migration in Thailand, in particular how the cross-border flows of marginalised minorities, the so-called 'hill tribes' came to be seen as an 'existential threat' to Thai national identity by the state. The paper aims...