Migrant labor takes a holiday: Reworking modernity and marginality in contemporary Thailand

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-51

  Mills, Mary Beth ^a  

^a Colby College   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Identity; Labor; Thailand; Tourism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOR FORCE; LABOR MIGRATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; THAILAND; TRAVEL AND TOURISM;

ASIA; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOR FORCE; LABOR MIGRATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; THAILAND; TRAVEL AND TOURISM;

ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH MANPOWER; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THAILAND; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0033237310     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9901900105     Document Type: Article

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