Spaces of Solidarity

<p> Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a 'humanitarian case'. Instead the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands. A key focus of the book is to look at this engagement in terms of spaces of solidarity - constructed through patterns of activism paths of connectivity and processes of cultural recovery. The book also studies the spatial configuration of borderlands examining the impact of cross-border activities and their inter-related nature.</p>