As a B.A. majoring in International Relations from Thammasat University in Thailand with experience in Thailand’s Foreign Ministry, Ropharat Aphijanyatham focused her research on border issues between Myanmar and Thailand, especially the increasing movement of low-skill labor from Shan State in Myanmar into Thailand to seek jobs. She also analyzed the proposed means by which to secure their safe, legal employment across the borders with decent wages and access to some social protections, (...)

ARANYA Siriphon is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, ’Thailand. Her current research centers on recent Chinese migration in mainland Southeast Asia and petty Chinese capitalism.

Dr Michitake Aso has commenced an 1-year joint appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster in ARI and Tembusu College with effect from 2 September 2011.
Dr Aso received his BS in Engineering from the University of California-Berkeley, and his MA and PhD in the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on environmental history, the history of science, and medical history in Vietnam during the 19th and 20th (...)

Statutory researcher from 2014 to 2016
Jean BAFFIE was trained at the universities Paul-Valéry (Montpellier 3) and Jussieu (Paris 7) in sociology, psychology and history. After a thesis in 1981 on the "sociogenesis of Thai cities", he made a career as a researcher at the CNRS. From 2004 to 2007, he directed the Institute for Research on Southeast Asia (IRSEA, CNRS-University of Provence), then from 2008 to 2011, the Asia-Pacific House (MAP, CNRS-Aix-Marseille University). From 2012 to 2014, (...)

IRASEC 2023 field scholarship winner
Chloé Baills is a PhD candidate in political and religious anthropology at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL), affiliated with the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE/UMR 8170) and the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (GSRL/UMR8582). She has been conducting fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar since 2015. Her current research focuses on ritual modes of action in the Burmese political field.
Research areas
Anthropology of the Religious Field in Burma Power, (...)

Todd Bancroft has been employed by the Hong Kong Police for the past 14 years, where he has performed a wide range of duties relating to the investigation and prosecution of organized and serious crime. He is currently the officer in charge of Interpol Hong Kong’s Extradition Unit. He has a MSc on Forensic and Legal Psychology, University of Leicester. His presentation of the main honking based triads shows us how difficult the eradication of these gangs is difficult while some people in the (...)

Research areas
Territorial issues and development : maritime and land areas, natural resources, sustainable cities, land policies Dynamiques sociales : droit, éducation, place et statut des femmes, migrations, santé Societies, environment, climate change : nature/culture, disaster management, resource degradation, public policy and planning Social dynamics : law, education, place and status of women, migration, health Knowledge co-creation and gender-inclusive Mekong water governance (...)

Audrey BARON-GUTTY (Université de Lyon, Institut d’Asie Orientale) is a PhD Student in Political Science. Her thesis deals with the impact of globalization on the making and implementation of national educational policies, with a special focus on Thailand and its educational reform launched in 1999. She was sponsored for two years by the IRASEC to carry out her field work and the CELS (Centre for Education and Labour Studies), based at Chiang Mai University, provided her with institutional (...)

Michael D. Barr is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Flinders University, Australia. He is the editor-in-chief of Asian Studies Review and the author of Lee Kuan Yew (2000, 2009), Cultural Politics and Asian Values (2002), Paths Not Taken (edited with C. Trocki, 2008), Constructing Singapore (with Z. Skrbis, 2008) and Singapore (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming).

alexandre.barthel irasec.com
Alexandre Barthel is a doctor in history (University of Caen, France) and a researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand).
His research focuses on the political history of Laos and Thailand in the 20th century : history of the Lao Itsara and Viet Minh movements in Thailand (1945-1950), history of the political opposition in Northeast Thailand (1954-1965), and history of the origins of the Cold War in Thailand (1920-1950). (...)