The Mekong challenge: underpaid, overworked and overlooked : the reality of young migrant workers in Thailand

Elaine Pearson; Sureeporn Punpuing; ʻĀrī Čhampāklāi; Sirinan Kittisuksathit; Aree Prohmmo

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The Mekong challenge: underpaid, overworked and overlooked : the reality of young migrant workers in Thailand

Elaine Pearson, Sureeporn Punpuing, ʻĀrī Čhampāklāi, Sirinan Kittisuksathit and Aree Prohmmo

ILO

2006

Abstract

child worker

young workers

labour migration

migrant workers

child trafficking

working conditions

conditions of employment

frontier

textile industry

agriculture

fishing

domestic work

Cambodia

Lao PDR

Myanmar

Thailand

Assesses economic, legal, social and policy factors affecting four sectors where trafficking of children and women is known or reasonably suspected to occur in Thailand: agriculture, domestic service, fishing and textile manufacturing.

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Title: The Mekong challenge; underpaid, overworked and overlooked : the reality of young migrant workers in Thailand
Creators: Elaine Pearson (Author)
Sureeporn Punpuing (Author)
ʻĀrī Čhampāklāi (Author)
Sirinan Kittisuksathit (Author)
Aree Prohmmo (Author)
Contributors: International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
International Labour Organization
ILO DWT for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific and Country Office for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Mekong Sub-regional Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women
Publisher: ILO; Bangkok
Date published: 2006
Number of pages: 2 v. :
ISBN: 9221193942; 9789221193944; 9221193950; 9789221193951; 9228193948; 9789228193947; 9228193956; 9789228193954
Language: English
Asset Type: report
Record Identifier: 995373691802676