Migration

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 13, 2020 • 9 min read

Tales of the Pandemic The view from inside Singapore’s migrant dorms

By Md Sharif Uddin • Apr 13, 2020
In April, Singapore put several dormitories housing 20,000 migrant workers under lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19, prompting criticism about conditions. Writer and Bangladeshi migrant worker Md Sharif Uddin gives his account from inside

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 01, 2020 • 4 min read

Refugees and the displaced Jan Egeland: Humanitarian work must adapt to dangers of Covid-19

By Andrew Haffner • Apr 01, 2020
Jan Egeland has been Secretary General of humanitarian group the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013, overseeing projects in more than 30 countries globally. He spoke with the Globe this week about how Covid-19 has, overnight, dramatically changed the way the industry works with refugees and the displaced

Migration • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 26, 2020 • 6 min read

Rohingya photography A life in pictures

By Andrew Haffner • Mar 26, 2020
Driven from their homes and living in arduous conditions, three Rohingya refugees have been equipped with smart phones and trained in photography in order to document day-to-day life in Bangladesh's refugee camps

Migration • Mar 19, 2020 • 10 min read
Refugee camps and COVID-19

When social distancing isn’t an option

As the world locks down and social distancing goes into full effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh don’t hold such a luxury. What happens if the virus takes hold in the world’s most vulnerable communities?
By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner

Migration • Feb 28, 2020 • 8 min read
Cambodian Refugees

Memories of a refugee childhood

In 1991, sixteen Khmer families from Cambodian refugee camps received asylum in the Netherlands. Chhay Lin Lim's family was one of them. Lin Lim was born in the camp in 1986. Now, he's sharing his early memories of camp life.
By Chhay Lin Lim

Migration • Feb 20, 2020 • 9 min read
Burmese art

A light in the darkness

Maung spent his childhood in the midst of civil war in eastern Myanmar. Now a migrant in Thailand, he uses art to soothe painful memories and shine a light on the ongoing suffering of his people
By Zachary Frye

Migration • Dec 20, 2019 • 8 min read
North Korean refugees

The long way South

Top read: As countries across Southeast Asia prepare to expel all North Korean migrant workers this weekend to comply with UN Resolution 2375, we return to a piece from 2011 looking at the then-growing trend of North Korean refugees fleeing oppression and abject poverty to seek refuge in Thailand
By Jared Ferrie

Migration • Nov 27, 2019 • 8 min read
Youth unemployment

Working things out

Cambodia has a shortage of candidates with the necessary soft skills key to propelling them towards better jobs. We speak to the community organisations trying to expand opportunities for vulnerable youth.
By Samantha McCabe

Migration • Oct 25, 2019 • 15 min read
Urban Myanmar

No place like home

When one of Yangon's many new immigrants tries to reach out to a taciturn neighbour, he nearly ends up biting off more than he can chew
By Will Buckingham

Migration • Sep 18, 2019 • 11 min read
Poverty in Cambodia

Houses divided

Single-income families must endure a precarious dependence, with penury, divorce and emigration looming when things go wrong for a breadwinner
By Veng Sonita

Migration • Jul 26, 2019 • 13 min read
Aged care

The lost generation

Jobs are scarce in rural Cambodia, forcing hundreds of thousands of young parents to emigrate – and leave their young children in the hands of hard-pressed grandparents who get little help from the government
By Thomas Brent