Geospatial studies on establishing rural villages and migration networks in Northeast Thailand

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According to topographic maps of the 1950s, villages were sparsely distributed in the upper-middle watershed of the Songkhram River, however, many villages have been established after 1950s. In this study, household-level surveys were conducted in four target villages among such new villages to obtain information on migration history. Geographical analysis of three important places in their life, i.e., birth, marriage, and current places, suggests four stages in the growth of such new villages. While each of the four stages was of different duration, their pattern was almost similar among the surveyed villages regardless of their location and year of establishment.