Gender, mobilities, and livelihood transformations : comparing indigenous people in China, India, and Laos - London Routledge 2014 - xiii, 186 pages ; - Routledge studies in development, mobilities and migration .

"This book demonstrates how current neoliberal policies are making people increasingly on the move - whether voluntarily or forced, and whether individually, as family, or as whole communities - and how such mobility is changing the livelihoods of indigenous people, focussing on how these transformations are gendered. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research it compares indigenous people in India, China and Laos that are rapidly being exposed to structural adjustments, neoliberal policies, and reform. It queries how state policies and cross-border and cross-regional connections have shaped and redefined rights, identities, and gender relations of indigenous peoples"--

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Labor mobility
Indigenous peoples
Forced migration
Indigenous peoples
Displacement (Psychology)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.

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