Gender, Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations ─ Comparing Indigenous People in China, India and Laos

"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"--

Ragnhild Lund is Professor in Development Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Kyoko Kusakabe is Associate Professor of Gender and Development Studies at the School of Environment, Resources and Development, at the Asian Intitute of Technology, Thailand.

Smita Mishra Panda is affiliated to the School of Management at the Human Development Foundation in India and is Adjunct Research Fellow with Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia.

Yunxian Wang is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea.