Dr. Pyone Myat Thu is a researcher in the Asian Research Center for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies, at Chulalongkorn University. Pyone’s research is concerned with livelihoods, forced and labour migration, and mobility practices. She draws on theoretical influences from critical development studies, political ecology, forced migration and mobilities studies. Pyone has carried out extensive research and consultancy work in Timor-Leste and has recently broadened her scope to Thailand and Myanmar.
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Pyone.M@chula.ac.th
Ph.D in Human Geography
Australian National University
Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education
Curtin University of Technology
B.Sc. (First Class Honours in Geography )
University of Western Australia
Thu, P.M. (2020). Displacement, Return and Translocality in Rural Timor-Leste, Mobilities, Doi:
Thu, P.M. and Judge, D.S. (2017). Agricultural Livelihoods and Child Growth: evidence from rural Timor-Leste. Geographical Research, 55(2), 144-155.
Thu, P.M. (2019). Internal Displacement in Rural Timor-Leste. In A. McWilliam and M. Leach (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste, 174-184. London and New York: Routledge.
Thu, P.M. (2017). Rocks Don’t Recognise “Malae”: doing ethnographic research on land conflict in rural Timor-Leste. In M. Nygaard and A. Bexley (Eds.), Ethnography and Development Fieldwork in Timor-Leste, 169-190. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press.
March 2020 – da Costa, J and Thu, P.M. Animal Control on the South Coast of Timor-Leste, University of Western Australia and AI-Com Timor-Leste. March 2020 – Thu, P.M. and da Costa J. Natural Resource Management in Nartarbora Administrative Post, Manatuto Municipality, Timor-Leste. University of Western Australia and AI-Com Timor-Leste.
June 2019 – Thu, P.M and da Costa, J. The Role of Tara Bandu on the adoption of the Velvet Bean System in the South Coast Area of Manatuto and Manufahi, University of Western Australia and AI-Com Timor-Leste.
Thu, P.M. (2018). Revisiting the MDG Housing Program, Devpolicy Blog.