Following 77 households over 25 years, the paper traces agrarian change in two settlements in Northeast Thailand. This is distilled into three processes: a delocalisation of living, a disembedding of households, and a dissociation of the village-community, seen in a geriatrification of farming,...

Using the experiences of first and second generation migrants from three villages in Thailand, we “personalize” the middle income trap, seeking to understand how and why migrants with growing levels of education and human capital remain rooted to their natal villages. Agrarian change is such...