Education of migrants from Burma

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Description: Includes education for refugees and migrants
Source/publisher: Online Burma/Myanmar Library
Date of entry/update: 2011-02-03
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Language: English
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Sub-title: Voices of children playing resonate in the courtyard of a Thai monastery. The children are not outside, but their voices emanate from the window in the main building on the second floor.
Description: "The building is a classroom, and the children are wearing school uniforms – green pants, white shirts. Some of the students clasp their hands together with the traditional “wai”, and say “Sah-Wah-Dee Khrap” as one. Many of the children are fluent in Thai, but none of their parents were born in Thailand. They are all kids from Myanmar parents working in the Mahar Chai district, which is home to the biggest fish market in the country. There are just under 1.5 million Myanmar workers living in Thailand, according to the official 2014 census. Some work in retail and hospitality in areas like Phuket and Bangkok, whilst others make a living in factories or doing fisheries work, such as those in Mahar Chai. Some have been living in Thailand for over 2 decades. Before the Thaksin Shinawatra government in the late 2000s, migrant parents had a hard time finding schools for their kids. Options were limited, without a Thai identity card, until NGOs started offering schools and tuition around 10 years ago. Even then, when kids were able to study in Thailand, very few were able to pursue their education when they returned to Myanmar, having missed out on the local curriculum.
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2019-10-18
Date of entry/update: 2019-10-18
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Topic: Myanmar migrant workers
Sub-title: Labour and security officials are working together to get young Myanmar children back into education after their learning centres were forced to close in Ranong, southern Thailand, Thai Labour Minister MR Chatu Mongol Sonakul said.
Topic: Myanmar migrant workers
Description: "The minister was speaking after meeting with Myanmar’s ambassador, U Myo Myint Than, at the ministry on Tuesday. The ambassador voiced concern that the centres had ceased operating after 32 Myanmar teachers were deported on August 26. The Myanmar nationals – 31 of whom held immigration clearance papers and one a passport – were teaching at 10 learning centres in Ranong without a licence. They reportedly applied and were registered to work as migrant workers. However, they took up paid teaching jobs instead, breaching the labour law. MR Chatu Mongol said the 32 teachers were charged, fined 5000 baht each and then deported. The deportation left the centres with no one to run them, forcing them to close. The labour minister said the ambassador was worried that the Myanmar children’s education would suffer..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" via Bangkok Post
2019-09-13
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-13
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Description: "Ethnographic research in low-income countries provides the kind of detailed and thick descriptive data needed for understanding educational processes and the role of education for quasi-literate minority populations in agricultural economies. Education is essential to stabilizing the lives of young people embedded in shattering traditional cultures, struggling to transition and adapt to life and work in the contemporary globalized and market-driven world. Field research can shed light on fruitful paths created by enterprising individuals working together in teaching teams. Research can help connect the educational process and outcomes to meaningful human development goals and to career opportunities within the context of local economic expansions tied to world markets. The research reported in the following chapters on the Karen refugees of Burma—now Myanmar—by Dr. Pia Jolliffe thus offers especially rich, compelling and poignant substantive data on the concrete challenges and issues faced specifically by a small group of Karen youth—real human beings—whose lives and identities have been destabilized by conflict, violence, displacement and their refugee status..."
Creator/author: Pia Jolliffe
Source/publisher: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
2016-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2017-05-04
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "?We had never heard about human rights in the village,” Lway Chee Sangar tells me at the Palaung Women?s Organization (PWO) office in Mae Sot, Thailand. Sangar is 23 years old. The ethnic nationality group to which she belongs, called the Palaung or Ta?ang, has been caught in an armed struggle for self-determination against the brutal Burmese regime for the better part of the past five decades. Sangar began working with the PWO about three years ago when her parents, desperate to give her an opportunity to improve her life, sent her from their tiny, remote village in the northern Shan State of Burma to the PWO?s former training center in China. It took her a combined six months of training at the PWO to begin to grasp the idea that all humans have rights. Sangar?s story is speckled with brushes with conflict, starting from her birth. She was born on the run, when her parents had to flee their village due to an outbreak of fighting nearby. Today, the Ta?ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), the armed wing of the Palaung State Liberation Front, is fighting off Burmese offensives and combatting opium cultivation in Palaung areas, according to their statement. Civilians are often caught in the cross-fire. Burmese forces have been known to use brutal tactics against civilians in conflict areas, including deadly forced portering and forced labor, torture, killing, and extortion of money, supplies, and drugs."
Source/publisher: Burma Link
Date of entry/update: 2016-03-18
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Language: English
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Description: "The northern Shan state, home to a majority of the Ta?ang people (referred to as ?Palaung? by others), is among the least accessible areas in Burma. These areas host some of the bloodiest conflict, the most poppy cultivation, extremely high rates of opium addiction, and crippling poverty. The Palaung Women?s Organization (PWO) has developed an impressive range of programs to empower Palaung women and support and advocate for their communities in the war-torn, drug-ravaged areas in northern Burma?all while combatting gender-discrimination and an epidemic of domestic violence. Three Palaung women, De De, Lway Yu Ni, and Lway Chee Sangar, each from a different Palaung village, sat down with us to speak about their lives, their struggles, and the work of the PWO."...See the Alternate link for part 2.
Source/publisher: Burma Link
Date of entry/update: 2016-03-18
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Abstract: "This paper presents the findings of a research study that investigated the level of education that the children of labor migrants from Burma now living in Chiang Mai, Thailand can access to as well as looking at the possibility and different channels for their further education should their parents decide to return to Burma. The focus of the study concentrates on four different ethnic groups, Karen, Karenni, Palaung and Shan by looking at children from the age between 4-13 years old to identify factors that are involved when these migrant children move back to Burma. At the same time, for many children who spent most of their lives in Thailand, it is interesting to see the possibilities and challenges for them in relating to accessing to education since Burma is a new home for many of them. Therefore, it is also interesting to see how the Burma government as well as the Thai education system will respond to this issue of educational development in the changing economic and democratic processes of these countries.".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­26 July 2015.
Creator/author: Sutthida Keereepaibool
Source/publisher: International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­26 July 2015
2015-07-26
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-11
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "The New Blood Foundation has been established to raise awareness of the Burmese migrant/exile situation on the Thai/Burma Border, and to raise money to support this underfunded school."
Source/publisher: 888nanwu via YouTube
2008-10-25
Date of entry/update: 2011-02-01
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Description: "Su Bote Chan is a very different kind of school. You?ll find it on the Thailand side of the Moei River that marks the border with Burma (Myanmar). About 5000 migrant workers eke out a living on this sliver of land, usually in local sweatshops and factories. For years, the children of Su Bote Chan had no school - not even a place where they could safely play. But in 2009 everything changed, thanks to the vision of local community workers, and a foreign journalist who raised funds by sharing the children?s story with his friends across the world in Canada. The head teacher at Su Bote Chan School (a gifted Burmese musician) believes that learning can only happen when children feel happy and secure - especially children whose lives are filled with so many challenges. That?s why music plays an important part in the school?s curriculum, along with many other kinds of creative activities. Pupils also study Thai, Burmese, English and Karen, as well as basic mathematics and geography. But nobody can learn on an empty stomach, so the school provides pupils with a simple, nutritious lunch each day. For many, it?s the only meal they can rely on. As Su Bote Chan School enters its third year, it?s impossible to predict what the future holds. The world of migrant children is a fragile one: especially along the Thai-Burma border. In 2010 the school had to close for a few days because of armed conflict across the river in the Burmese town of Myawaddy. The conflict could flare up again at any time. But as the School welcomed "Happy New Year 2011", the sound of shelling was replaced by the popping of balloons. Parents, caregivers, children, teachers and friends sang together, and shared food. And everyone celebrated."
Source/publisher: maesot11 via YouTube
2010-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2011-02-01
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Language: English
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Description: Karen kids seek good education in refugee camp schools... "Students in developing countries often look to distant lands to fulfill their dreams of a good education and a brighter future. A growing number of young people in Burma?s Karen State, however, find that schools operating in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border offer them the best chance of achieving these goals. Noh Poe refugee camp in Thailand?s Tak province is one of them..."
Creator/author: Shah Paung
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 5
2005-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-04-27
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "A school in southern Thailand is improving the lives of underprivileged Burmese children, and a family from Rangoon..."
Creator/author: Shawn L. Nance/
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 8
2003-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-12-06
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "People from Burma have become the major group of displaced persons in Thailand. Most of them are currently being sheltered along the Thai-Burma border, particularly in the Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi and Ranong. It is estimated that there are some 40,000 children from Burma under the age of 15 accompanying their parents. In addition, thousands of unaccompanied children are driven across the border by the desperate circumstances in Burma. ..."
Creator/author: Nyo Nyo
Source/publisher: "Legal Issues on Burma Journal" No. 10 (Burma Lawyers' Council)
2001-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: An international symposium on migration in Asia was recently held in Bangkok. Burma sent a delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister U Khin Maung Win. Independent analysts and NGOs estimate that there are one million Burmese illegally working and living in Thailand. However, Thai officials put the figure at 800,000.
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 7. No. 4
1999-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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