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A young migrant worker
laboring in the weaving industry of
Mizoram, India. There are about 10,000 migrants
from Burma who work illegally in this
state of India. (Photo: Aung Myo Min)
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One of the many factories located in the Mae Sot, Thailand
area which employs Burmese workers for low wages.
(Photo: BLSO)
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Migrant workers from Burma typically live in areas of poor
sanitation and overcrowding. This picture shows a
migrant living area in Mae Sot, Thailand. (Photo:
BLSO)
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Thai police arresting Burmese
at a temporary checkpoint in Mae Sot, Thailand. The people arrested are
often allowed to go if they pay the police a certain amount of money.
Otherwise they are taken to the immigration detention center to wait for
deportation to Burma. Arrested people are forced to squat like this for
extended periods of time until they are taken away by truck. (Photo: Erwin
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Out of fear for arrest,
deportation, or loss of money to police, many migrant workers hide out in
fields or forests near their place of employment if they hear of police
arrest operations. Here the shelter is often inadequate and people lack
access to basic necessities. Pictured here is a temporary shelter in Mae
Sot, Thailand. (Photo: BLSO) |
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Migrant workers hiding in the
forest near Mae Sot, Thailand in December 2000 during a police arrest
operation. (Source: BLSO) |
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Migrant workers awaiting deportation at Halockni camp,
Thailand.
(Photo: Aung Myo Min)
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Migrant workers being herded
into a police jail van for deportation in December 2000. They had been
arrested the day before and spent the night in cramped conditions at a
compound near the police station. (Photo: Ma Aindra) |
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A cattle truck full of arrested migrant workers heads
across the "Friendship Bridge" between Mae Sot, Thailand and
Myawaddy, Burma. It is a typical practice to force as many people as
possible into these trucks, so that acute overcrowding and
injuries often result. (Photo: Erwin )
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