ABSTRACT
This chapter represents the many varied ways in which international migration is both cause and consequence of the spatial opening-up process. The chapter explains migration story that affects the whole of Southeast Asia, although once again in different ways and to different degrees. The representation of the Chinese in Southeast Asia has reflected major historical changes in China itself: in the late 19th and early 20th centuries they were seen as involuntary migrants with their main loyalty not to their country of immigration, but to their home towns and villages Thailand's international migration flows are surprisingly complex. One of the reasons for this is that in addition to the uprooting associated with social modernization and economic globalization shared with other countries in Southeast Asia. The region of low exchanges intra-regionally, and of large net immigration from China and South Asia, it now has major migration flows between its constituent nations and large net emigration to the rest of the world.
