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Exploitation and escape: journeys across the Burma-Thailand frontier
Along the Burma-Thailand border, through official channels or via countless informal paths, efforts to escape from the difficulties of life in Burma are ongoing.1 In many individual stories, obvious push factors such as war and poverty are combined with the groaning boredom, educational void and incessant petty hassles that dictate life for Burma’s non-elite citizens. Those who flee these familiar hardships are confronted by a new language, culture and economy. Few receive a warm welcome on the Thai side of the border and most find they are forced to survive at the bottom of a stark social and political hierarchy, often under conditions far from the comfortable life that they may have originally imagined. As bama (Thai for Burmese) they are generally regarded as a dispensable and temporary imposition.2
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Publication title
Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical PerspectivesEditors
M Ford, L Lyons and W van SchendelPagination
130-148ISBN
9780203121535Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Taylor & FrancisPlace of publication
United KingdomExtent
44Repository Status
- Restricted