Since Myanmar’s coup, Thailand has been absorbing not just refugees but an entire generation of students. How to give them a real education, in a language they are only beginning to learn, is still an open question.
Most Myanmar migrants in Thailand cannot obtain a work permit without a broker. The official fee is 3,700 baht. What brokers charge is rarely that – and there is little to stop them from charging more.
In Mae Sot, a Thai border town where Myanmar migrants have made their lives for decades, death has always arrived with consequences beyond grief. Over fourteen years, the migrants themselves have quietly built a way to face it together.
Since international funding was sharply reduced a year ago, Mae La, the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, has been struggling to hold together.
After their factory abruptly shut down in 2020, more than 200 garment workers took their case to Thai courts and won. Five years later, they’re still fighting over who should pay them.
Myanmar migrants in Thailand say embassy staff are withholding documents from those who refuse to vote in the military junta’s election. But the pressure campaign appears to be failing.
Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand received passports stamped “For Thailand Only,” sparking fears they’re banned from travelling abroad. But the restriction may have no legal weight at international borders.
Since Myanmar’s coup, Thailand has been absorbing not just refugees but an entire generation of students. How to give them a real education, in a language they are only beginning to learn, is still an open question.
Most Myanmar migrants in Thailand cannot obtain a work permit without a broker. The official fee is 3,700 baht. What brokers charge is rarely that – and there is little to stop them from charging more.
In Mae Sot, a Thai border town where Myanmar migrants have made their lives for decades, death has always arrived with consequences beyond grief. Over fourteen years, the migrants themselves have quietly built a way to face it together.
Since international funding was sharply reduced a year ago, Mae La, the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, has been struggling to hold together.
After their factory abruptly shut down in 2020, more than 200 garment workers took their case to Thai courts and won. Five years later, they’re still fighting over who should pay them.
Myanmar migrants in Thailand say embassy staff are withholding documents from those who refuse to vote in the military junta’s election. But the pressure campaign appears to be failing.
Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand received passports stamped “For Thailand Only,” sparking fears they’re banned from travelling abroad. But the restriction may have no legal weight at international borders.
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