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States and illegality in the upper-Mekong borderlands

October 22nd, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 1 Comment

The latest Newsletter from the International Institute for Asian Studies features a series of articles on “underworlds and borderlands”. I contributed one article based on research I conducted some years ago in the upper-Mekong borderlands. The brief article proposes moving beyond the common dichotomy between regulating states and resistant borderlanders:
Borderlands are often described as ‘frontier [...]

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Tags: Burma · Laos · Publications · Thailand · The Mekong · Trans-Border Issues

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