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aseas-2565	Morton, Micah	“If You Come Often, We Are Like Relatives; If You Come Rarely, We Are Like Strangers”: Reformations of Akhaness in the Upper Mekong Region	2013	31	.pdf	application/pdf	13470	711	56	In contrast, in Thailand Akha are in a very poor position along with the Lisu and Lahu – although the Akha seem to be in the poorest position. Nevertheless, a rapidly expanding regional infrastructure of highways, bridges, tunnels, and telecommunications coupled with the transborder efforts of certain elite is increasingly bringing Akha and cultural productions of Akhaness from other parts of the region into the everyday realities of local Akha communities lacking ASEAS 6(1) 3534 kinds of transborder ties among members of the transnational Dai-Lue minority (Da- vis, 2003; Wasan, 2013).10 Since the early 1990s, a particular faction of Akha elite has been working to (re-) establish more formal ties with other Akha in the region by building on what they identify as a common history, ancestral genealogy, and language.	cache/aseas-2565.pdf	txt/aseas-2565.txt