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Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
(December, 2005)
I. INTRODUCTION
II. BACKGROUND
  Burma: Country Profile  2
  History of Burma  4
  Reasons for Leaving Burma  6
  Preliminary Survey Results about Buremese
  Migrant Workers in Thailand		 12
III. MIGRANT WORKERS AND THAI POLICY
General Situation of Migrant Workers  
  The Situation of Migrant Workers 18
  Thailand: Harsh Policy Towards
  Burmese Refugees		 19
  “Thais get tough on foreign labour” 20
Economic Value of Migrant Workers  
  Exploitation in Global Supply Chains:
  Burmese Migrant Workers in
  Mae Sot, Thailand

21
  “Recovery needs migrant workers” 22
Registration: Process and Impacts  
  The Registration Process 24
  Life of Migrants after Registration 26
People’s Stories  
  Burmese Migrant Workers:
  A Brush with the Law		 27
IV: SOCIAL POLICIES AND LIVING
STANDARDS OF MIGRANT WORKERS
Family Rights and Education  
  Fighting for a Basic Human Right 29
  The problem of unregistered births
  id such a conundrum		 30
  Registered Workers: Migrant children
  deprived of education		 31
Physical and Mental Health  
  HIV/AIDS Stalks Burmese Migrant Workers 31  
    Karen in need of blessings 33
  Human trafficking network  
    Abuse without end: Burmese refugee
  women and children at risk
  of trafficking		 34
    Statement of Network of Migrant
  and Refugee Women from Burma		 36
  Tsunami aftermath:
Situation of Burmese Migrant Workers
  
    Fear deepened woes of Burmese migrants 38
    Migrant Burmese worker - Loss
  of Identity, Loss of humanity		 39
    Thailand: Burmese workers are the
  Tsunami’s Secret Survivors		 40
 
V: WORKING CONDITIONS
AND LABOUR ACTION
  Wage and Conditions of Work  
    Work, Rights, and Discrimination against
  Burmese Workers in Thailand		 42
  Rights and Court Cases  
    Thailand/Burma: Court orders factory
  owner to pay compensation to
  Burmese migrant workers		 48
    Burmese Migrants, Labour Groups,
  Fight for Fair Wages		 49
    The Price of Exploitation 50
 

  Thailand: Denial of migrant workers rights;
   Illegal detention, deportation and arrest;
  Assault of human rights defenders

 51
  Thai Civil Society:
the growing NGO network		  
    Burmese Labour Group Targeted by Police 54
    Migrant Workers: victims among the victims 54
    Legal counseling clinic opened for
  migrant workers		 56
 
VI: RESOURCES

 

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