{"id":6593,"date":"2026-04-29T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:54:31","slug":"the-confined-lives-of-displacement-agency-and-displacement-across-the-myanmar-thailand-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?p=6593","title":{"rendered":"The Confined Lives of Displacement: Agency and Displacement Across the Myanmar\u2013Thailand Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6593\" class=\"elementor elementor-6593\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-66edba92 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"66edba92\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-79b5c8ae\" data-id=\"79b5c8ae\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16261fef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"16261fef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>We are pleased to announce that one of our team\u2019s 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 their agency in coping with, and even thriving within, limited conditions.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bencharat Sae Chua, Samantha Jeffries, and Sai Hkur have reconceptualized what it means to be confined. They explore the idea that confinement is relational and extends beyond physical sites such as prisons, refugee settings, and conditions of political exile. Instead, it encompasses the constrained social, legal, and political environments that individuals must navigate.<\/p>\n\n<p>The panel examines how undocumented migrants, refugees, and political exiles navigate these constraints in their everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Statement from Bencharat Sae Chua<\/strong>: <br \/>The aim of Burma\/Myanmar studies, and its contribution:<\/p>\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe\u00a0work\u00a0contributes to the effort to reconceptualise exile. It changes the narratives about life in exile &#8211; from those in need of help to those of active change agents.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that one of our team\u2019s panel proposals has been accepted for the International Conference on Burma\/Myanmar. 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