Aug 29, 2020
The borderland of Samut Sakhon province in Thailand has recently had a huge majority of its workers hailing from Myanmar. How did the Burmese end up in such large numbers there in particular, and how does Thai society view their presence? Dr Puttaporn Areeprachakun (Jip), Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Chulalongkorn University, joins us to discuss her ethnographic research on these multi-ethnic, majority Buddhist, Myanmar migrant workers.