The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between 'ordinary' people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and 'the West'.

Paul Statham is Professor of Migration and Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR, University of Sussex, UK). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), and a founder of the Sussex-Mahidol Migration Partnership with Mahidol University (Thailand).

Sarah Scuzzarello is Lecturer at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on gender, transnationalism, and intergroup relations. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Since 2019 she co-coordinates the IMISCOE's Standing committee on Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research (GenSeM).

Sirijit Sunanta is Assistant Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand. Her main research interest is gender and migration. Her current research projects focus on care transnationalization and gendered labour in Thai health and well-being tourism.

Alexander Trupp is Associate Professor at the School of Hospitality and Service Management, Sunway University, Malaysia, and editor-in-chief of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS). His research interests include mobilities and the intersections of tourism and migration, tourism for development, and hospitality and tourism microbusinesses.

1. Introduction - Globalising Thailand through gendered 'both- ways' migration pathways with 'the West': cross- border connections between people, states, and places 2. Globalising the Thai 'high- touch' industry: exports of care and body work and gendered mobilities to and from Thailand 3. Living the long- term consequences of Thai- Western marriage migration: the radical life- course transformations of women who partner older Westerners 4. Thai wives in Europe and European husbands in Thailand: how social locations shape their migration experiences and engagement with host societies 5. Practising privilege. How settling in Thailand enables older Western migrants to enact privilege over local people 6. Transnational intimacy and economic precarity of western men in northeast Thailand 7. Intergenerational strategies: the successes and failures of a Northern Thai family's approach to international labour migration 135