Thai Marriage Migrants in Germany and their Employment Dilemma after the Residence Act of 2005

This book provides one of the most comprehensive researches on Thai marriage migrants in Germany to date. It investigates the employment dilemma of Thai marriage migrants after implementation of the new Residence Act of 2005 in Germany. Also it sheds light on the underlying problems that hinder Thai marriage migrants' potential as full-time labourers, examines the Thai diaspora and explores the present-day trans-nationalism of Thai marriage migrants in Germany. Most importantly, it applies Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical concept of capital, habitus and social space to better understand Thai marr iage migrants' career choices in the German milieu. ABOUT THE SERIESDevelopments in the field of area studies, above all the analytical deconstruction of world regions in their geopolitical sense, deeply affect the knowledge production on and from societies and cultures located in these formerly commonsensical as well as politicized compartmentalizations of the globe. With this series the...