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Border Capitalism, Disrupted is rich ethnographically, intelligent theoretically, deals with an important topic, and is well written. Stephen Campbell's work will be of interest to scholars of borderlands, migration, police, and corruption, NGOs, anthropology of work, and global assembly industries. --Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso Border Capitalism, Disrupted is rich ethnographically, intelligent theoretically, deals with an important topic, and is well written. Stephen Campbell's work will be of interest to scholars of borderlands, migration, police, and corruption, NGOs, anthropology of work, and global assembly industries. --Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso

Border Capitalism, Disrupted is rich ethnographically, intelligent theoretically, deals with an important topic, and is well written. Stephen Campbell's work will be of interest to scholars of borderlands, migration, police, and corruption, NGOs, anthropology of work, and global assembly industries. -- Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso

Border Capitalism, Disrupted is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read about precarious migrant workers. The book does not just fill a gap in the literature regarding labor studies and political economy, it represents an important contribution to Southeast Asian Studies and Human Geography as well. An excellent addition to the expanding literature that analyses the situation of migrant workers in Mae Sot....and should be of great interest to people working on labour relations, labour migration, Southeast Asian studies, anthropology and political science. * Journal of Contemporary Asia * Astute.... Stephen Campbell's Border Capitalism, Disrupted insightfully describes Mae Sot as a space where a novel regulative 'bordering' process has produced a site uniquely ordered for global capitalism. His carefully-reasoned argument is introduced in the title of the book: that the production of two borders has enabled now 'legal' appropriation and exploitation of a fixed migrant population. * Tea Circle * Border Capitalism, Disrupted is well-researched and detailed, and is a valuable resource for scholars working on borders, precarity, Special Economic Zones, and resistance. * PoLAR * Border Capitalism, Disrupted is an outstanding book packed with well-executed ethnographic analysis of the experiential (migrants' lives) and the political (migration governance).... This is a must-read book for any student, scholar or policy official interested in Myanmar, Thailand, migration governance or the ethnography of policy. * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology * Border Capitalism, Disrupted is striking in its dynamism. It maintains a dynamic relationship between political economy analysis and the 'finer empirical grains' (p. 6) that Campbell encounters through intensive fieldwork; further, it provides a keen sense of the dynamic character of border capitalism itself... No doubt this book will be read for its contributions to the anthropology of labour. * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *

Border Capitalism, Disrupted is rich ethnographically, intelligent theoretically, deals with an important topic, and is well written. Stephen Campbell's work will be of interest to scholars of borderlands, migration, police, and corruption, NGOs, anthropology of work, and global assembly industries. --Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso Border Capitalism, Disrupted is rich ethnographically, intelligent theoretically, deals with an important topic, and is well written. Stephen Campbell's work will be of interest to scholars of borderlands, migration, police, and corruption, NGOs, anthropology of work, and global assembly industries. --Josiah Heyman, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Interamerican and Border Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso

Border Capitalism, Disrupted is an outstanding book packed with well-executed ethnographic analysis of the experiential (migrants' lives) and the political (migration governance).... This is a must-read book for any student, scholar or policy official interested in Myanmar, Thailand, migration governance or the ethnography of policy. * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology * Astute.... Stephen Campbell's Border Capitalism, Disrupted insightfully describes Mae Sot as a space where a novel regulative 'bordering' process has produced a site uniquely ordered for global capitalism. His carefully-reasoned argument is introduced in the title of the book: that the production of two borders has enabled now 'legal' appropriation and exploitation of a fixed migrant population. * Tea Circle * An excellent addition to the expanding literature that analyses the situation of migrant workers in Mae Sot....and should be of great interest to people working on labour relations, labour migration, Southeast Asian studies, anthropology and political science. * Journal of Contemporary Asia * Border Capitalism, Disrupted is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read about precarious migrant workers. The book does not just fill a gap in the literature regarding labor studies and political economy, it represents an important contribution to Southeast Asian Studies and Human Geography as well.

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Stephen Campbell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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