Constructing a Governing Rationale: Developing Lao Hmong Refugees at Wat Tham Krabok

In this paper I argue that Thai discourses of modernization and development have been taken up by the leaders and other prominent monks at Wat Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple (WTK) in central Thailand’s Saraburi Province and directed at governing a settlement of mostly Lao Hmong refugees that made their...

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Main Author: David Chambers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hmong Studies Journal 2014-12-01
Series:Hmong Studies Journal
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Online Access:https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/chambershsj15.2.pdf