I would like to try a little experiment and start a #MastodonPhotoExhibition.
In the next days and weeks I will be posting a series of photos on the topic of #labourMigration in #SoutheastAsia based on the digital exhibition #workmenonthemove I did together with Srikhoon Jiangkratok a return migrant from #Thailand who took over 900 photos documenting the life and working conditions of transnational labour migrants in #Singapore.
Photo 1 of #workmenonthemove shows a proud man in front of a house in #Burriram (#Thailand). In the Northeast of Thailand it is common that men leave the village and work overseas such as in #Taiwan, #Brunei, or #Singapore. This has a strong impact on the male identity, as young men are often confronted with societal expectations to provide for their families and return home as successfully as the other men from the village who have made it abroad.
#migration
(c) photo by Srikhoon Jiangkratok
Dr. Simon Bunchuay-Peth