State institutions in Northeast Thailand: Lao ethnics and the Thai identity

• Main Author: RICKS, Jacob
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Ethnic groups; Lao identity; Thailand; Asian Studies; Political Science; Politics and Social Change; Race and Ethnicity
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3898; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5156/viewcontent/2024_RICKS_StateInstitutionsinNortheastThailand.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this last chapter on state representation, we focus on a case where there has been an absence of demands. In Northeast Thailand, the large ethnic Lao population has not demanded cultural concessions from the state. In fact, not only have the demands been absent, but most people in the region see...