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From: markxx@garnet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.agroforestry
Subject: Migration into forest reserves/national parks
Summary: Request for feedback/information about migration and forestry
Keywords: Forestry, migration, peasant studies
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Date: 12 Oct 89 06:28:57 GMT
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I am currenty working on a research proposal/dissertation prospectus
that (*very* briefly) will be looking at migration into forest reserves
as a part of the process of the differentiation of the peasantry, that is
the transformation of peasant classes under capitalism and growing 
marginalization of a significant portion of the peasantry.  The fieldwork
will be done in Thailand.   I will be testing to see what the relationship
between state policy regarding land tenure and this process of migration is.

	a) Does anyone have reccomendations for prior research and other
references that they would reccomend?  I am aquainted with most of the 
literature for Thailand, but would like to incorporate material from other
geographic areas, as well as other academic areas.

	b) Anyone know a source of the actual text of the different
land reform acts in Thailand? I am especially interested in 1953, 1975 and
the 1983 acts.  I already have located discussions about them, but not the
acts as they were written.  English or Thai is okay.

Thanks.

Mark A. Ritchie
Dept. of Sociology, UC Berkeley
markxx@garnet.Berkeley.EDU