A Policy Seminar with Professor Jonathan Rigg, Prof Geography, National University of Singapore

Personalising the middle-income trap: An inter-generational migrant view from rural Thailand Using the experiences of first and second generation migrants from three villages in Thailand, this paper 'personalises' the middle income trap, seeking to understand how and why migrants with growing levels of education and human capital remain rooted to their natal villages. Agrarian change is such that the village remains the locus of familial belonging and livelihood security.

Sir Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and International Affairs

invites you to a policy seminar with

Professor Jonathan Rigg

Personalising the middle-income trap:

An inter-generational migrant view from rural Thailand

Jonathan is a Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore, having moved from Durham University in the UK last year. He has been working on issues of development in the Asian region since the 1980s, often with a rural focus. Jonathan is the author of six books and some 60 journal papers. His most recent books are Unplanned development: tracking change in Southeast Asia (Zed Book, 2012) and, co-edited with Peter Vandergeest, Revisiting rural places: pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia (NUS Press, 2012). He is currently working on a new book with the working title Shadows of success: challenging development in Southeast Asia.

Discussant

Professor Kevin Hewison

Sir Walter Murdoch Professor of Politics and International Studies and
Director, Asia Research Centre

  Wednesday 21 May 2014

Learning Link Building 513 Level 1.005

12.30 to 1.30pm

Light lunch & refreshments provided

Please RVSP jade.lim@murdoch.edu.au