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Biotechnology applications in the shrimp industry fall in line with Thailand’s strategy to become ‘Kitchen of the World’ which assigns an export-oriented role to the food and agriculture sectors.2 Surat Thani Province is one of the biggest shrimp producer areas in the south of the country with a labour force comprised mainly of migrants from Northeast Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. The competitiveness of the shrimp industry in Thailand appears to be associated with low wages, facilitated by the use of migrant workers.3 This chapter analyzes the relationship between gender, technology and migration, particularly focusing on the manner in which the concept of ‘place’ defines ‘work’ and how the identities of ‘gender’, ‘migrant’ and ‘worker’ interact to produce specific labour control practices affecting wage levels and migrant workers’ social well-being.
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Resurreccion, B.P., Sajor, E.E. (2011). Gender, Technology and Migration in Export-Production of Shrimps: Identity Formation and Labour Practices in Surat Thani Province, Thailand. In: Truong, TD., Gasper, D. (eds) Transnational Migration and Human Security. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12757-1_14
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