migration



STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 23, 2023 • 9 min read

Migration Myanmar’s Tamils maintain legacy in the face of upheaval

By Shalini Perumal • Feb 23, 2023
Many of Myanmar's Tamil population maintain deep roots in the country, with family history stretching back generations. Forced to flee discrimination and political upheaval, they grapple with nostalgia and juggle bi-cultural identity living in India

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 20, 2022 • 6 min read

Analysis Refugees have become hostages in Indonesia

By Hussain Shah Rezaie • Jul 20, 2022
Following long periods in detention centres, many who fled persecution have encountered repressive conditions driving some to despair and early death

STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 24, 2021 • 15 min read

Workers' rights Under-Protected Abroad, Domestic Workers Find Ways to Resist

By Lam Le • Dec 24, 2021
Southeast Asian domestic labourers often migrate to wealthier countries where they are excluded from labour protections and left vulnerable to abuse. While Covid-19 has made labour conditions worse, some migrant workers have found their own ways to resist

Dec 23, 2021 • 8 min read
Migrant workers

Bounded Amidst Restrictions

Indonesian migrant workers face an arduous fate amidst the pandemic. We look at the trials and tribulation of these workers the government considers “heroes of foreign exchange reserves” during the pandemic
By Caesar Akbar • Dec 23, 2021

Oct 15, 2021 • 8 min read
Migration

Death in a greenhouse

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 Jack Brook and Samphors Sao • Oct 15, 2021

Jun 08, 2021 • 9 min read
Covid-19

As virus hits, Bangkok undergoes reverse migration flow

As the tourism shutdown hits the Thai economy and Covid-19 rages on across the country, many low-wage workers are leaving the capital to return to the provinces. Some see opportunity in this reverse migration flow, while others are struggling just to stay afloat
By Wanpen Pajai • Jun 08, 2021

May 03, 2021 • 8 min read
Opinion

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

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

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

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

Dec 18, 2020 • 5 min read
Opinion

Putting migrant workers at the heart of Covid-19 recovery

To mark International Migrants Day, Kristin Parco, Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration in Cambodia, and Graeme Buckley of the International Labour Organization highlight the vital role migrant workers play in Cambodia and worldwide
By Kristin Parco and Graeme Buckley • Dec 18, 2020

Jun 13, 2018 • 8 min read
Urban migration

Brunei’s troubled heart

The once-populous district of Kampong Ayer, a community of stilted homes and wooden walkways, is a shell of what it once was in its heyday as residents drift to the city
By Pete Ford • Jun 13, 2018