이주민, 비합법성, 그리고 국경사회체제: 태국-미얀마 국경지역 사회체제의 특성에 관한 연구
Migrants, Illegality and a Border Social System: A Study of a Border Social System in the Thailand-Myanmar Borderland
- 발행
- 2008.02
- 소속·발행
- 외교통상부
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- DOI
- 10.21652/kaseas.18.1.200802.109
- UCI
- G704+INS000000918-ART001246801
- 원문등록
- 2008-03-03
- 원문
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개념
키워드
매솟, 태국-미얀마 국경지역, 미얀마 이주민, 비공식성, 비합법성, 국경사회체제, Mae Sot, Thailand-Myanmar Borderland, Burmese migrants, Informality, Illegality, Border Social System
초록
This study examines how the Burmese are integrated in the social system of Mae Sot, a Thai town in the Thailand-Myanmar Borderland, although they lack proper legal status. It attempts to overcome the conventional description of them as victims and thus passive actors. It reveals that the Burmese, regardless of whether they are illegal residents, constitute the border society as prominent members. 
 This study suggests that it is quite necessary to take into account illegality or informality as a norm to achieve an adequate explanation of societal formation in the border town. Furthermore, it proposes that the integration of these legal and illegal parts gives a holistic understanding of the society. This study first traces the historical formation of the border social system. It discovers that the multitudinous migration in the late 1980s abruptly expanded the social system and subsequently increased illegality or informality. It goes on to explore the border social system in the sectors of administration, economy and education. This study discloses that the state does not monopolize governance in the town, observing that other regimes such as migrants' own form of administrat