This post part of my continuing “Walkabout in Thailand”, after leaving my regular position at Chico State in northern California in January 2016. The subtitle for this series might be: “free unsolicited advice for university administrators.” One of the reasons for this walkabout was frustration with the Chico State bureaucracy. Officially, Chico State is about … Continue reading Walkabout 3: Distributional Coalitions and Bureaucratic Silos in Chico and Thailand

I don’t like international borders. I have been through many of them, and at each one there is the potential that you will be detained, and disappear into a system which is not accountable to anyone, much less you. Agents make decisions to arrest and detain you based on information they can see on their … Continue reading International Borders and Border Guards