Sofie Mortensen defended her thesis, “Agrarian Change and Emotional Struggles over Land, Labor, and Mobility: Subjectivity Formation amongst Myanmar Youth in Thailand,” in 2024 at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She draws on nearly 10 years of experience from the Southeast Asian context, studying differentiated outcomes of environmental change and development. In particular, she uses feminist and emotional perspectives to understand experiences of, and responses to, migration and exploitation, and the position of migrant laborers and farmers within wider agri-business value chains.
Watch Sofie talk about her thesis:
Read the EBA Development Dissertation Brief, a short version of the thesis