Description:
"...MAP Foundation conducted research with migrant women in Thailand about a living wage. The migrant women we reached explained that they were underpaid and that the frequent changes to migration policy made it difficult to stay documented. The cycle of rapidly-changing documentation requirements ate into the little pay they did earn and kept them insecure. Under these circumstances, a living wage was almost unimaginable - earning a proper minimum wage and stable documentation were more urgent issues. During the course of the research in June 2017, as if to prove the point, the Thai government issued a new Royal Decree on Foreign Workers Management B.E. 2560 (2017). Consequently, a new registration was put in place, forcing migrants women more into debt and disrupting their lives again..."
Source/publisher:
MAP Foundation
Date of Publication:
2018-00-00
Date of entry:
2020-01-25
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Countries:
Myanmar
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Shan State
Language:
Shan, Burmese, English, Thai
Local URL:
Format:
PDF
Size:
3.72 MB
Resource Type:
Text
Text quality:
- Good
Remote URL:
PDF (8 pages) (3.72 MB)