Practising privilege. How settling in Thailand enables older Western migrants to enact privilege over local people.
This article provides an empirical account of how older Western migrants in Thailand (N: 20) negotiate, practice, and justify their privilege in Thai society to secure the 'good' life they are seeking through migration. We show that they justify their economic privilege relative to locals by describ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 46; no. 8; pp. 1606 - 1629 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2020
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