Jacques IVANOFF

Statutory researcher from 2008 to 2010

Ethnologist at the CNRS since 1992, he works on border populations, migration dynamics, ethnic and social resilience. He lived for several years with the Moken Austronesians, marine nomads of the Mergui archipelago, in Thailand and Burma. He recently coordinated Thailand contemporaine with Stéphane Dovert (Bangkok-Paris, IRASEC-Les Indes savantes, 2011) and published a book on Southern Thailand (The Cultural Roots of Violence in Malay Southern Thailand, 2 vols., Bangkok, White Lotus Press, 2009 and 2012) explaining the cultural dynamics of the rebellion. Finally, he has co-published two IRASEC “Notebooks” on human trafficking : “La Monnaie des frontières” (2009) and “Thaïlande : aux origines d’une crise” (2010), the latter explaining the socio-economic factors and cultural archaisms that provoked the so-called "Yellow-Red" crisis.

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