Dream out of Reach: A Living Wage for Women Migrant Workers in Thailand 2018 (Shan)

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..."

Creator/author: 

MAP Foundation

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

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Format: 

PDF

Size: 

3.72 MB

Resource Type: 

Text

Text quality: 

    • Good