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RMAP Projects
 Ethnic women and girls selling bamboo shoots at the road side market along the newly improved road from Bokeo to Luangnamtha province (part of Route 3 highway). They cleverly chose steep hills or sharp curves, where cars have to slow down, as their seasonal road side market places.
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Project title
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Ethnic Minority Women: Contested Identity in Transformation to Transitional Economy in the Upper Mekong Borderlands of Northern Lao, PDR.
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RMAP student
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Panpilai Kitsudsaeng
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RMAP supervisors
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Andrew Walker
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Project documents
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Project summary
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The research aims to investigate the impact of development during the economic transitional period of Lao, PDR on the ethnic women in the Northern border areas. Its particular consequences and impact on a specific ethnic group can be identified by looking specifically at their coping strategies to handle the changes that have come with development. The aspects of transformation which disadvantageously confront the ethnic women will also be isolated. The finding will hopefully establish to what extent they are part of the shift to a market oriented economy. The way the ethnic women receive, reconstruct and pass on inheritance of ethnic identity will also clarified. Though this research will be carried out in Lao, PDR, the phenomena are not those of single nation state in the Mekong Sub region. The contribution of the research is to make the issue better understanding to the public; the body of knowledge is developed. Thus, hopefully through various channels, policy implementation on ethnic groups, really benefit them.
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