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I am a political sociologist who uses ethnographic, participatory, and survey methods to understand problems and paradoxes in human rights policy and development programs in mainland Southeast Asia and in the Greater Mekong Subregion. The core of longterm research agenda attends to statelessness (lack of citizenship) and its relationship to (un)safe migration, trafficking, and land-use/land dispossession among indigenous and ethnic minority communities in upland Southeast Asia, in particular. I am leading a new $1M initiative supported by the Luce Foundation where we collaborate with artists, activists, UNESCO, and leading faculty partners in Southeast Asia to interrogate and imagine inclusive ecological futures with secure land and water rights along the imperiled Mekong River and its tributaries. I am delighted to work with and learn from people in this network.