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By Jack Brook and Samphors Sao • Oct 15, 2021
After a Cambodian labourer died on a South Korean farm, migrant worker policies came under renewed scrutiny, propelling reform efforts and inspiring migrants to fight for their rights
By Samphors Sao and Wanpen Pajai • Aug 13, 2021
As Thailand undergoes its worst Covid-19 outbreak yet, much of the country has been placed under strict lockdown. For low-wage Cambodian migrant workers in the kingdom, this has meant a lack of food, wages and healthcare, while returning home is no easy feat
By Mark S. Cogan • Jul 06, 2021
Thailand's millions of migrant workers have long acted as a scapegoat for many of the kingdom's social ills. With Covid-19 outbreaks occurring in these cramped and impoverished communities, they've again become a go-to for authorities looking for someone to blame
By Ryan Anders • Jul 05, 2021
Distinct waves of immigrants from Vietnam to the US have shaped and been shaped by the country. Today, in the Texan city of Houston, the evolution of the country's Vietnamese community can be seen in the differing outlooks and experiences of each generation
Only five months after being relocated to the island of Bhasan Char off the coast of Bangladesh, the life of 10-year-old Rohingya Saiful would come to an abrupt end in May. Today, his death shines a light on the treatment of refugees from the persecuted ethnic group
By Shafiur Rahman • Jun 22, 2021
In Malaysia's latest case of mistreatment against migrants, dozens of foreign workers won a legal battle against US company Goodyear on Friday June 11, according to their lawyer
By Agence France-Presse • Jun 11, 2021
The past year has seen countries across Southeast Asia enter into some form of lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. While average citizens have been hit hard, these measures have exposed the great inequalities experienced by the region's millions of migrant workers
By Fanzura Banu and Shee Siew Ying • May 03, 2021
As the military ramps up its bloody crackdown on protests, some 2,000 have fled to Karen-controlled territory in eastern Myanmar seeking refuge. But as the ethnic group attempts to host the new arrivals, essential funds needed to support them are dwindling fast
By Ryan Anders • Mar 31, 2021
Cut off from their homeland, Singapore’s 200,000-strong Burmese community are navigating strict prohibitions on protests in the city-state, taking their pro-democracy fight online as they show their solidarity with those resisting the coup back home
By Toh Ee Ming • Mar 30, 2021
Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh are deprived of basic services, most importantly their right to work and become self-sufficient. But through an ongoing photography and storytelling project, one documentary filmmaker is hoping to change that
By Kiana Duncan • Mar 10, 2021
As high numbers of Cambodian migrant workers repatriate due to Thailand's Covid-hit economy, many are grappling with brokers and fears of detention as they are redirected from well-known Poipet to an obscure, military-controlled crossing in rural Banteay Meanchey
By Allegra Mendelson • Feb 26, 2021
With refugee camps burning, relocation to the island of Bhasan Char under way, and a potentially significant three-way meeting held this week between China, Myanmar and Bangladesh raising the issue of repatriation – the Rohingya refugee population is in a state of flux
By Andrew Haffner • Jan 21, 2021