Roundtable: Resilience and Resistance: Migrant Workers’ Struggle for Rights in Thailand

Session 31, Sunday 7 March 10.15-11.45Coordinator: Kyaw Kyaw Min HtutDiscussant: Brahm Press BEAM Education Foundation and MAP Foundation have been working to assist migrant workers for a decade. MAP is in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot, and BEAM works through a network in 7 provinces in Thailand. Both organizations run a number of programs aimed at empowering migrant workers to receive rights, including labor rights, women’s rights, access to health care, youth, and children’s education. As organizers of this panel, speakers will draw on their experience to give examples of how migrants face up to the various systemic problems they...

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Panel: COVID-19, Myanmar Migration, Risks & Resilience

Difficulties and problems of social inequality, migration, and degradation of resources are seen throughout Myanmar. Cross-border migration, Foreign Direct Investment in Special Economic Zones, and now the Covid-19 pandemic are issues of concern for all partners—from state officers, academia, and the private sector—to assure sustainable and inclusive development in Myanmar. Photo: Yawng Htang for Nikkei Asia This panel will examine Myanmar migration in the context of COVID-19 and how it has affected migrant workers. Impacts on migrant workers are complex and tied to other conditions related to migrant worker vulnerability: health access, economic inequality, migration status, working and employment conditions,...

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