The COVID-19 pandemic brought international tourism in Thailand to a standstill, leading to business closures, unemployment, and significant income losses for workers in the sector. Based on a qualitative survey conducted in Chiang Mai—based on 101 interviews between July 2021 and February 2022—this research examines the strategies adopted by the tourism workforce in response to the crisis. Findings reveal that public assistance, which was limited and sometimes discriminatory, proved (...)

Ms Praparat Khachornboon is a Thai jurist, holding a Bachelor of Law from Chulalongkorn University, with a significant experience in legal practice co-operating with an international organization assisting refugees and migrants. She is primarily involved with protection and legal issues, including trafficking.
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Khairudin Aljunied is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore. He specializes on the history of Southeast Asia, covering topics such as the Intellectual History, Religious Cosmopolitanism and Social Movements within and beyond the region. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the National University of Singapore and completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. In late 2013, he was a Fulbright (...)

Hui Yeon KIM Hui-Yeon Kim is sociologist and an associate professor at INALCO, Paris, member of the research unit ASIEs and affiliated to the Centre d’études en Sciences sociales du religieux (Césor). Her research focuses on the transnationalization of Korean Protestant church and aims to thereby contribute to a better understanding of the development of Protestant movements on a global scale. Dr Kim developed her research on the South-Korean influence in Southeast Asia and the role of (...)

ASEAN Doctoral Field Research Grant 2025/2026 Awardee
Born in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, I completed my Bachelor’s (2016–2019) and Master’s degrees (2020–2021) in Chinese Studies at Xiamen University Malaysia. I subsequently served as a research fellow at the Centre for Research on Southeast Asian Chinese Documents (2022–2023), where I collaborated with the research team and published several journal articles in Religions and Histories (MDPI), focusing on the Chinese diaspora, Chinese temples (...)

John Kleinen is a retired associate professor in anthropology and history at the University of Amsterdam. He is specialized on Vietnamese studies and visual anthropology. He published a number of books, among these, Facing the Future, Reviving the Past. A study of Social Change in a Northern Vietnamese Village (1999) and Pirates, Ports and Coasts in Asia (2010). Recently he contributed to a special issue of the academic review Moussons on Vietnamese intellectuals (1858-1954). (...)

Juliette Koning holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is Reader in Organization Studies and Asian Business at the Business School of Oxford Brookes University, UK. As a social anthropologist, Juliette studies organizational processes, in particular the study of small business organizations in Southeast Asia.
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William KUCERA is LLM Candidate in Petroleum Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, after holding a Master in Strategic Studies with Certificate in Terrorism Studies in the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore.
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Eko Budi Kurniawan a soutenu en 2011, à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, une thèse de géographie consacrée aux « Disparités régionales et rôle des régions métropolitaines en Indonésie : un nouveau modèle centre-périphérie ? ». Membre associé du laboratoire Gecko (Géographie comparée des Suds et des Nords, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre) et du Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE/CNRS-EHESS) durant son séjour en France, il est désormais responsable de la sous-direction de l’Urbanisme au ministère des Travaux publics (...)

IRASEC 2023 field grants awardee
leo.kyriacopoulos ehess.fr
Léo Kyriacopoulos is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), within the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE). His doctoral thesis explores the development of social enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City, combining cultural and economic anthropological approaches to identify socio-economic changes specific to the region, which in turn reveal trends in global development policies. He is also (...)