MIGRANTS
Myanmar workers keen to stay
- Published: 30 Jan 2013 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
High wages in Thailand are likely to keep the majority of Myanmar migrant workers here over the next three years, a labour researcher says.
While Myanmar is currently taking steps toward democratisation and a freer market, finding good jobs there remains difficult, Premjai Wangsiripaisarn of the Asian Research Centre for Migration at Chulalongkorn University's Institute of Asian Studies said.
Most Myanmar migrant workers are able to find work easily here and earn enough so they can send money home, she said.
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