The purpose of this presentation is to share the theoretical framework of our collaborative research entitled "Migrant Networks as a Survival Strategy for Minorities in the Global Transborder Migration of Minorities in Mainland Southeast Asia".
Our multidisciplinary research group aims to determine how globalization affects the life course of minorities by focusing on the extension of their transborder migration networks. This three-year project comment in June 2012 and is scheduled to end in January 2015. The research group consists of five researches: Prof. Masami Fujimaki (Japan), Dr. Nisakorn Klanarong (Thailand), Dr. Suttiporn Bunmak (Thailand), Dr. Mala Rajo Sathian (Malaysia), and Kayoko Ishii (Japan), who is the group's organizer.