Migration

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 22, 2021 • 6 min read

Rohingya crisis Understanding the death of Saiful, a child refugee on Bhasan Char

By Shafiur Rahman • Jun 22, 2021
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

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 11, 2021 • 2 min read

Migrant workers Migrant workers in Malaysia win Goodyear legal battle

By Agence France-Presse • Jun 11, 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

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • May 03, 2021 • 8 min read

Opinion A year since the transient worker Covid crisis: Lessons for Southeast Asia

By Fanzura Banu and Shee Siew Ying • May 03, 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

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 31, 2021 • 8 min read

Myanmar coup In Karen State, refugees flee bombs as funds for displaced CDM run low

By Ryan Anders • Mar 31, 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

Migration • Mar 30, 2021 • 11 min read
Myanmar coup

Blocked from protesting, Singapore’s Burmese take democracy fight online

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

Migration • Mar 10, 2021 • 8 min read
Migrant rights

The photography project empowering Rohingya refugees to tell their stories

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

Migration • Feb 26, 2021 • 15 min read
Migration

For Cambodian workers, obscure new border crossing makes for uncertain journey home

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

Migration • Jan 21, 2021 • 8 min read
Rohingya crisis

Burning camps, island relocation and repatriation talks as Rohingya await fate

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

Migration • Jan 19, 2021 • 2 min read
Refugees

‘Arson’ destroys four UNICEF schools in Rohingya camps

Unicef has said four of its schools in a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh's southeast were burnt down in an arson attack, coming just less than a week after hundreds of refugee homes were burnt down
By Agence France-Presse • Jan 19, 2021

Migration • Jan 12, 2021 • 8 min read
Human rights

‘On a huge scale in Cambodia’: Director talks slave labour in Thai fisheries

While many of the industry's worst excesses have been cleaned up in recent years, bondage labour persists aboard Southeast Asia's fishing vessels. Following the reemergence of his film Buoyancy, director Rodd Rathjen talks about the conditions he witnessed in Thailand's infamous fisheries
By Stew Post • Jan 12, 2021

Migration • Dec 28, 2020 • 3 min read
Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh moves more Rohingya to controversial island

Bangladesh started moving a second group of 1,000 Rohingya refugees to Bashan Char, a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, despite opposition from rights activists
By Agence France-Presse • Dec 28, 2020

Migration • Dec 22, 2020 • 3 min read
Human trafficking

Vietnamese victim’s father pities men convicted in UK over migrant deaths

The father of one of the 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck in Britain late last year said that he felt sorry for Eamonn Harrison and Gheorghe Nica, the two men convicted of manslaughter over the deaths
By Agence France-Presse • Dec 22, 2020