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Languages Are Our Roots and Branches: Translanguaging with Migrant English Teachers from Myanmar

8 Minutes To ReadRosalie Metro looks at multilingual classrooms on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Education

Tags: borders, languages, Mae Sot, MTB-MLE, Spring Revolution, Thai-Burma border, translanguaging

September 26, 2024

Celebrating Manau in Northeast India

11 Minutes To ReadEmily Fishbein and Kelvin Sinpraw (pseudonym) show how a Kachin tradition defies borders.

Tags: borderlands, borders, culture, India, Jinghpaw, Kachin, Manau, Shapawng Yawng, Singpho

April 24, 2023

Remaking and Living with Resource Frontiers in Myanmar

6 Minutes To ReadA new special issue in Geopolitics (edited by Jasnea Sarma, Hilary Faxon and K.B. Roberts) highlights pre- and post-coup extractive economies and political geographies in Myanmar and beyond.

Tags: borders, colonialism, environment, geopolitics, People's Defence Force (PDF)

March 31, 2022

Escalating Crisis in Myanmar from a Cross-border Perspective

9 Minutes To ReadCV Lalmalsawmi discusses the repercussions of Myanmar’s coup from across the border in Mizoram.

Politics

Tags: borders, Chin, Mizo, Mizoram, myanmar, myanmar coup, National Unity Government (NUG), refugees

December 20, 2021

A Peep over the Border

6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee ponders Indo-Myanmar relations during the COVID-19 crisis.

Tags: ASEAN, borders, conflict, COVID-19, diplomacy, geopolitics, India, Sagaing

August 4, 2020

Power Play: Equal Participation in Sports on International Women’s Day

7 Minutes To ReadYadanar Oo, Naw Tah Mu Lar and Maggi Quadrini write about how a football tournament along the Thai-Burma border challenged gender stereotypes faced by young women and girls on the pitch.

Tags: borders, gender, Mae Sot, PlayOnside, Thai-Burma border, women's rights

April 8, 2020

Explorers, Rebels and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Myanmar-China Railway

12 Minutes To ReadFrances O’Morchoe details the lesser-known history of the Myanmar-China railway in nineteenth-century Burma.

Arts & Literature

Tags: borders, China, colonial burma, history, Islam, Panthay, railways, Shan State, Yunnan

March 2, 2020

Leveling the Playing Field

7 Minutes To ReadMaggi Quadrini argues that funding requirements for locally run non-profits put them at a disadvantage.

Opinion

Tags: borders, community-based organization (CBO), donors, international aid, Karen, Mae Sot, PlayOnside, refugees, Thai-Burma border

November 19, 2019

Hanging in the Balance: Challenges in Relocating a Post-secondary School from a Thai Refugee Camp to a Ceasefire area in Myanmar

9 Minutes To ReadSu-Ann Oh and Melanie Walker discuss the challenges of return to ceasefire areas faced by post-secondary schools in Karen refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Tags: borders, educational reform, Karen, Karen State, refugee camps, refugees, Thai-Burma border

April 24, 2019

Post-secondary Education in Myanmar: Reform from the Ground-up

9 Minutes To ReadShona Loong and Gray Rinehart discuss how local leaders in post-secondary schools pave the way for inclusive, critical, and community-based learning.

Tags: borders, community, development, educational reform, ethnic minorities, higher education, Hpa-An, Karen, refugee camps, states and regions, Tanintharyi, Thai-Burma border

February 18, 2019

Trends in China-Myanmar relations: 2018 Year in Review

15 Minutes To ReadMyat Myat Mon looks at where China-Myanmar relations have been in 2018 and where they’re heading.

Tags: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), borders, China, Myitsone, Nay Pyi Taw, One Belt One Road, paukphaw, Tatmadaw, Yunnan

January 31, 2019

Social Media Facebook Connections Between the Shan and Thai: How Technology Helps the Consumer to Become a Self-Producer

10 Minutes To ReadKo Htwe describes the cross-border use of social media among Shan and Thai communities.

Opinion

Tags: borders, community, Facebook, shan, social media, technology, Thai-Burma border

January 17, 2019

The Limits of Development and Control in the Borderlands of Burma: An Ecology of Conflict and Control (Part II)

14 Minutes To ReadBobby Anderson, in this two-part series on the borderlands of Burma, looks at the politics of insurgent groups in Paletwa, in southern Chin State. Part I can be found here and the author’s […]