Center for Social Development Studies - CSDS

Event Invitation: Youth Migration Dialogue – Challenges and Prospects for Myanmar Youth: Collaborating for safer and more inclusive migration pathways 🌏

Date: 16 December 2025

Time: 08:30 - 16:00
Venue: Smart Classroom, 7th Floor, Kasem Udyanin Building, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Across the region, Myanmar youth are on the move—seeking safety, education, and decent work, while navigating complex legal systems, discrimination, and uncertainty. On the occasion of International Migrants Day, Finn Church Aid (FCA) Thailand, Spirit in Education Movement (SEM), the Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM), and the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) invite you to join a multi-stakeholder dialogue that places youth voices at the centre of migration discussions.

The event will feature:

- Key findings from recent research on the Labour Market Assessment for Myanmar Youth and the study on the Economic and Social Impact of Granting Work Rights to Refugees in Thailand
- A panel discussion on youth migration, challenges, and opportunities with representatives from the Royal Thai Government, Businesses, Civil Society Organizations and Myanmar youth
- A short film, “Journey to Harmony”
- A Youth Forum where Myanmar youth share their lived experiences and ideas for change

Languages: English, Thai, and Burmese with simultaneous interpretation

Please register here: https://forms.gle/EQhDR8pT9EyDkhn19
by Friday, 12 December 2025.

If you're thinking of joining POLLEN2026, please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on the Political Ecology of Disasters and Development. The panel is co-organized with Takeshi Ito and colleagues. The submission deadline is Dec 5th,

Five new policy briefs from the Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program:

🌊 Protecting the Customary Rights and Way of Life in Thailand’s Small-scale Fishery Communities

🌱 From Trust to Recognition: Strengthening a Participatory and Community-Grounded Seed System in Thailand

🌿 Walking Alongside Communities: Supporting Community-Led Adaptation Resilience Beyond Climate Change in Northern Thailand’s Highlands

🏞️ Connecting Thailand’s Community-based Tourism to Chinese Travellers: Local Voices, Emerging Trends, and Collaboration

🚗 Can Chinese EV Investment Contribute to Thailand’s Green Transformation?

📌 Visit here to explore the project and download the policy briefs:
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Just Futures Mekong Fellowship Program — Center for Social Development Studies Regional sustainability through research, collaboration and dialogue

UPCOMING WEBINAR: “Can Chinese EV Investment Contribute to Thailand’s Green Transformation?”
🌐 Join online via Microsoft Teams
🗓 Tuesday, 26 August 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 (ICT)
More information and register: https://tinyurl.com/yhwzy26s

Reminder: 4 days left to register, please join us a public seminar on "Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation:
Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities"

More information ⬇️
https://www.csds-chula.org/announcement/upcoming-event-towards-thailands-green-transformation-research-on-emerging-challenges-and-opportunities?fbclid=IwY2xjawLv0IpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFXTmxVUkVIc3d3WElwYjBMAR5u1bSTuwcBUUwS8agRNEwLqykynclrqwmLaky4C3G93yC-GpKpPA7v60TmRw_aem_W60GBFA # #

UPCOMING EVENT: Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation: Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities — Center for Social Development Studies Please register here . Public Seminar (Hybrid event)   Toward’s Thailand’s Green Transformation:    Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities   29 July 2025: 10:00 – 15:00    Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor, Kasem Udya

UPCOMING EVENT: "Towards Thailand’s Green Transformation: Research on Emerging Challenges and Opportunities"

📍 Attend onsite at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
💻 Or join us via Zoom

🗓 Date: 29 July 2025
🕘 Time: 10:00 – 15:00

🔗 More information and register here:
👉 https://www.csds-chula.org/announcement/upcoming-event-towards-thailands-green-transformation-research-on-emerging-challenges-and-opportunities

Announcing a new Journal Article: “The Imaginaries of Urban Agriculture and a Livable City Shaping Bangkok’s Urban Governance and Design”. Visit: https://www.csds-chula.org/publications/2025/5/8/journal-article-the-imaginaries-of-urban-agriculture-and-a-livable-city-shaping-bangkoks-urban-governance-and-design

REMINDER: Please join us "Towards Regional Solidarity in a Changing Food Landscape"
More information and registration:
https://www.academia.sg/

Singapore’s role in understanding food systems and their transformation is significant. It is part of a network of regional hubs where agribusinesses, media organisations, and investment firms with a key focus on North America and Europe are headquartered in Asia. This presentation aims to spark a discussion on the Southeast Asian food systems Singapore is intertwined with, for people involved in planning, organising, and researching food systems that nourish ecological and social well-being. This presentation places urban gardens research within food systems, learning assemblages, and sustainability transitions literature, and asks what connections we might draw between locally-rooted practices, and regional connections.

𝐇𝐮𝐢𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐠 develops knowledge exchange and action research methodologies with Living Soil (Singapore) and at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. Her practice includes research, writing and multimodal interventions oriented towards agroecological regional food systems. Huiying’s doctoral research utilizes participatory approaches and film to understand agroecology’s materiality in Thailand.

Discussant: 𝐉𝐞𝐟𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐮, National University of Singapore

Organised in collaboration with: 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲.

Announcing a new Policy Brief: “From Local Floating Market to Urban Recreational Area: Redefining Space in a Changing Context – A Case Study of Bang Muang Community and Wat Bot Bon Community”. Visit https://www.csds-chula.org/publications/policy-brief-from-local-floating-market-to-urban-recreational-area-redefining-space-in-a-changing-context-a-case-study-of-bang-muang-community-and-wat-bot-bon-community

ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS: We joined the International Migrants Day Conference on 15 December 2023.
Please see the full program https://www.facebook.com/watch/ias.chula/ and our website here https://www.csds-chula.org/activityandevents/2024/5/9/event-resources-international-migrants-day-bangkok-thailand-15th-december-2023

The students from MAIDS-GRID https://www.maids-chula.org/about-maids-grid and Dr. Carl Middleton from CSDS visited the SAFETist Farm for a student project on the "Innovation for Inclusive Development in Southeast Asia" course