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.

The Thailand-Cambodia border conflict cost Kui communities their harvests, deepened their debts, and left unexploded shells buried in their fields. Its quieter damage, to a decade of work reconnecting an indigenous people that modern borders had long divided, may take far longer to repair.

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.

Alemi Saechin spent ten years proving she was Thai before she could vote. Now she and other first-time ethnic minority voters across Thailand are discovering that gaining citizenship doesn’t mean gaining full democratic inclusion.

Thailand passed its first law to protect indigenous communities, making it the fourth country in Southeast Asia.