Join us in a documentary film screening „THAILAND AS A SECOND HOME FOR FOREIGN RETIREES“ and discussion with Prof. Dr. Sirijit Sunanta. 

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand

Date: Thursday, 22nd June 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Venue: HS 888, 3rd floor, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020 Salzburg

Virtual participation:  LINK

ABSTRACT

 This documentary is an episode in the documentary series „Some One“ that explores contemporary diversity in Thai society. Thailand has been a destination for international retirement migration. The Thai government promotes long-stay tourism and the transnational retirement industry as a strategy for economic development. Foreign retirees constitute a new group of population in Thailand, a middle-income country that is facing rapid population ageing.  

BIOGRAPHY

Sirijit Sunanta, a visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the PLUS, is associate professor in the PhD Program in Multicultural Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand. Her research interests include gender and migration, globalization and food cultures, and the politics of diversity in Thailand. The geographical focus of her research is transnational mobilities between Europe and Thailand. Sirijit has published widely in leading journals in the areas of Asian Studies, Migration Studies, Gender Studies and Tourism Studies. Her current research projects focus on care transnationalization, old age care and migration, and gendered labour in the Thai tourism industry.