Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai
agricultural and manufacturing workforce. Un-documented and unregulated, this army of …

The landslide electoral victory of Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party in
February 2005 means that the most powerful elements of big domestic capital will continue …

The vast majority of migrant workers in Thailand are employed predominantly in low‐paying
occupations commonly described as “3‐D jobs”(dangerous, dirty, and difficult). Currently …

In discussing the challenges of cross-border childcare faced by migrant workers, most
research focuses on 'distance mothering', assuming that children remain in the place of …

The military government's concerns with the industrialisation of Burma can be observed
through the example of the development of satellite towns around Rangoon before the …

Of the total migrant remittances to developing countries, it is estimated that some 30–45 per
cent are from other developing countries. Such South–South remittances have not received …

This case study argues that even in increasingly unstable circumstances women migrant
workers have to continue to balance their reproductive responsibilities as mothers and …

In the literature on governmentality, rights have been posited as technologies of rule,
encouraging individual self-government, as well as active participation in the institutions of …

There are approximately 1.5 million migrant workers from Burma living in Thailand. The
majority work as day laborers on farms, in factories, in fishing and seafood processing …

For almost two decades the Thai government's attempts to improve the management of
migrant workers arriving from neighbor countries have consistently been ineffective. The …