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...