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- Title
Invisible in Thailand: documenting the need for protection.
- Authors
Green, Margaret; Jacobsen, Karen; Pyne, Sandee
- Abstract
The article focuses on a survey conducted by the International Rescue Committee on the refugee status of Burmese people living outside the refugee camps in Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Mae Sot in Thailand. It reports that Burmese refugees in Thailand are entitled to international assistance and protection but are not able to avail them. The Thai authorities consider the Burmese living outside the refugee camps as economic migrants, who are subject to deportation. It informs that more than 50% of respondents in both Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son reported forced labour, violent abuse or the forced appropriation or destruction of their property or livelihoods as reasons for their flight.
- Subjects
CHIANG Mai (Thailand); MAE Hong Son (Thailand); MAE Sot (Thailand); MYANMAR; THAILAND; LEGAL status of refugees; SURVEYS; REFUGEE camps; DEPORTATION
- Publication
Forced Migration Review, 2008, Vol 1, Issue 30, p31
- ISSN
1460-9819
- Publication type
Article