Recently, forcefully displaced persons, including refugees and asylum seekers, have received increasing critical scrutiny in the literature. Little has been written about how those displaced persons adopt necessary tactics to improve their livelihood with or without external help, hindering important insights into their agency to negotiate with their harsh surroundings. To address these lacunae, this article examines Myanmar's internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the border between Myanmar and China and how they cross the border for new livel...
