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.