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• We need to be able to move more freely. We do not understand why we have to pay so much to be allowed to travel, to get a passport, and to get a work permit, for security. We see other people-tourists, business people, researchers, and students-all moving without having to pay these costs. • We want to be able to be responsible members of society. We need to be treated equally and with respect. We face too many obstacles in just living life and taking care of our families. Our children have not always been welcomed into schools, we have not always been able to access health care, and we are oen poorly treated at work. • The Mekong region has mulple languages. We all face difficules with communicaon and understanding. We ask for greater acknowledgement of these different languages. • We do all that we can to follow rules and regulaons. We would prefer to be called legal and be paid legal wages and work in legal condions. But for some of us, there are so many barriers that we have to stay unregulated in order to survive. We really hope that From Our Eyes will let people know that migrants do have opinions and can be invited to share them. We hope that future plans for the development of the region will include the ideas of many more migrants and that Mekong policies will truly be ‘from our eyes’. Migrant Workers of the Greater Mekong Subregion August 2012 iv From Our Eyes: Mekong Migrant Reflections 2000-2012
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would sincerely like to thank all of the migrants who contributed their valuable me and experse in reflecng on their experiences over the last 10 years. This book would not have been possible without them. We would like to express our hearelt gratude to the following people and organisaons for their work in helping us to prepare this book: • Liz Hilton and the team from EMPOWER Foundaon for providing an NGO reflecon and interviewing migrants; • Saen Than Phrom, Suhichai Rerkyarmdee, and the team from Foundaon for AIDS Rights (FAR) for providing an NGO reflecon and interviewing migrants; • Po Po and the team from Foundaon for Educaon and Development (FED) for providing an NGO reflecon and interviewing migrants; • Jackie Pollock and the team from MAP Foundaon for providing an NGO reflecon and interviewing migrants; • Brahm Press and the team from Raks Thai Foundaon for interviewing Migrants; • Sinav Pen and the team from Cambodian Human Rights and Development Associaon (ADHOC) for interviewing migrants; • Sopheap Soung and the team from Cambodian Women’s Crisis Centre (CWCC), for interviewing migrants; • Mom Sokchar, Vichuta Ly and the team from Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW), for providing an NGO reflecon; • Reiko Harima, MMN Regional Coordinator, and Noriko Morita, MMN Informaon Officer, for coordinang the project and eding; • Hla Myat Moore and Jay Kerr for arranging the reflecons into narrave style; • Pranom Somwong, MMN Advocacy Convenor, for verifying informaon and wring box arcles; • Omsin Boonlert, MMN Research and Advocacy Officer for translang interviews and draing box arcles; • Laura Padge for draing box arcles; • Hannah Withers, MMN Project Officer, and Jessica Marsh, MMN Project Officer, for eding; • Thu Do, for assisng in draing box arcles and eding; • Jamey Silveira for producing the map; and • Photographer John Hulme for providing several photographs, including the cover photo. More of John’s work can be found at www.johnhulme.net.. From Our Eyes: Mekong Migrant Reflections 2000-2012 v
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Page 5: PREFACE We are migrants from the Me
Page 9 and 10: CONTENTS Preface ..................
Page 11 and 12: INTRODUCTION We, migrants, have mad
Page 13 and 14: • Access to jusce; • Educaon fo
Page 15 and 16: BACKGROUND ON MIGRATION POLICY IN T
Page 17 and 18: As a way to implement the MOUs, two
Page 19 and 20: Map of key locaons INDIA CHINA Yunn
Page 21 and 22: here, after deductions for food and
Page 23 and 24: I had neither a health card with my
Page 25 and 26: I think there are many more job opp
Page 27 and 28: Thailand, which industrialised ahea
Page 29 and 30: Workers were frustrated in their ef
Page 31 and 32: Did you know... Polical climate Mig
Page 33 and 34: Pursuant to Secons 10 and 11 of the
Page 35 and 36: “Migrant workers cannot make thei
Page 37 and 38: the workers received their wages di
Page 39 and 40: estricve policies. For example, I h
Page 41 and 42: If there were an emergency situaon,
Page 43 and 44: Did you know… Compulsory Migrant
Page 45 and 46: unnamed Thai employer, ‘would fac
Page 47 and 48: pass to visit Ranong province in Th
Page 49 and 50: I have a naonal ID card in Burma. W
Page 51 and 52: I am worried that the migrant schoo
Page 53 and 54: the head of villages, about every t
Page 55 and 56: NGO Reflection: The Foundation for
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“Going out is a risk and I don’
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estaurant told us that the police d
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Did you know… Mobility restricons
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The border pass I got when I crosse
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Luckily, the other women gave me a
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card. The police found my ATM card
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asked us about our work, “Hey pre
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Bangkok, the driver got down and ca
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Migrant sex workers’ rights The A
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those without documents and without
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“I gave up drugs and was trained
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stayed at the same house knew about
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debt, I returned back to Poipet and
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I used to be arrested many mes but
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“I had many difficules during tho
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According to my experiences so far,
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labour inspectors to inspect and is
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Endnotes: 1 Internaonal Organizaon
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migrants working in Thailand. I did
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I have only one son. My son was bor
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Birth cerficaon The Naonality Act B
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machine operator. My wages also inc
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I don’t have an ATM card. I never
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have helped me. I have been to the
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“My family cannot save enough mon
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My employers always treat me fairly
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I can go up to Phang Nga province b
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I decided not to enrol my daughter
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There has been no improvement in de
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“I know that there is a Thai law
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I don’t have a work permit. I wou
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I have had no contact with governme
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2. States Pares shall take legislav
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have difficules and suffer in life.
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My friend asked me for the money ba
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contracepve pill. I let myself have
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The main difficulty I have is with
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There is a government policy that d
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“We need to solve the atude probl
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We used to live with our employer f
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have migrants been allowed to study
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In regards to cultural expression,
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the hospital first and said that th
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In my opinion, we should have the r
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Aer I shared my experiences in Thai
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Before entering Thailand, I was edu
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Did you know... Medical condions of
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“I have experienced deportaon. I
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Thailand again. I worked (begged) a
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I have experienced deportaon. I was
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