Entangled in Red Tape

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The jobs are waiting for Burmese refugees, but the road to them is full of obstacles... "While working on a university graduation thesis at Mae La refugee camp in Thailand?s Tak Province, Burmese student Moe Zaw Oo interviewed a 20-year-old woman resident who ventured outside every day to earn 50 baht (US $1.50) laboring on a nearby farm. ?When she returned to the camp in the evening she also had to sell vegetables for the farmer. She was expected to sell them all or lose her job,? said Moe Zaw Oo. Unknown numbers of refugees slip out of Mae La and other camps in this way to work illegally on Thai farms and estates for as little as 40 baht ($1.20) a day, risking arrest and deportation..."

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"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 7

Date of Publication: 

2009-10-00

Date of entry: 

2010-02-27

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English

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