Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows national economic policies infrastructural connectivity migration and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks institutions politics and processes specific to enclave development and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely as sites of capital accumulation territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.
