The Myanmar–Thailand Team participated in the 5th International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies, held at Chiang Mai University in Thailand from 14–16 August 2026. As part of the conference, the team convened a panel session, “The Confined Lives of Displacement: Agency and Displacement Across the Myanmar–Thailand Border,” featuring three papers examining different dimensions of displacement and […]

In May and June, Steffen Jensen carried out fieldwork in Cape Town in a squatter camp where he has worked many times before. This time, the aim was to understand how Malawian migrants cope with and negotiate very tough conditions in Cape Town. Steffen says, ‘Working with Malawian migrants takes you to the bottom of

We are pleased to announce that one of our team’s panel proposals has been accepted for the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar. The team will participate in the 5th International Conference this August at Chiang Mai University, where they will present their paper. The paper explores the confined lives of displaced individuals and seeks to understand

From June 9th-13th, we had the pleasure of gathering the entire CONFINED team in Copenagen to get to know each other, and to align the projects. Workshop highlights We started the workshop with team introductions, where each case study was presented by the researchers. In addition to the four case studies already outlined, there is

The CONFINED logo is the result of a collaborative discussion in our team on how to visually represent confinement. It is important to us that the logo not be the decision of a single person, but rather the result of dialogue among our researchers. Our initial inspiration focused on physical barriers—doors, nets, bars, roads, and

We’re pleased to welcome four PhD fellows, each contributing to CONFINED’s ethnographic case studies on confinement and transnational family networks. Their research spans diverse global contexts: from (post)colonial and economic ties between the UK and Sierra Leone to migration between Malawi and South Africa, displacement from Myanmar into Thailand, and the experiences of Palestinians in

CONFINED secured funding from the European Research Council (ERC) in April 2024, with several participating institutions sharing the news through their press releases. You can find the initial coverage by clicking on the images below. The project officially launched in 2025 and will run for five years, through 2029.