Chapter
1 Thailand’s hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand: hidden from the global gaze
The context: push-and-pull factors underlying Burmese migration to Thailand
Background to the research
Burmese women workers in Thailand: nimble fingers and docile bodies
Burmese migrant workers: citizenship and entitlement in a hostile world
Who cares? Burmese women in Thailand as carers and workers
Shifting terrain: Burmese migrant women’s responses to economic and political change
2 Thailand’s industrialisation and labour migration policies
Thailand’s industrialisation before and after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s
Decentralisation of industry
Demand for and control of migrant labour: regulating the irregular
Figure 2.1 Registered migrants 1997–2008
3 Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand’s export industries
Figure 3.1 Apparel factories and workers in Tak province
Remittances as obligation
Marriage, children and changing relationships
Women’s journeys: agency, subordination and change
4 Migrant women in Thailand’s factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences
Who are the women workers?
What kind of factories do they work in?
Security of employment and mobility
Safety, security and harassment, deportation
5 Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care
Table 5.1 Country of birth of first child by respondent’s location
Table 5.2 Childcare patterns for children under 6 years old for those respondents who delivered a child after coming to Thailand, by location
6 After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities
Effect of the economic crisis on migrant workers’ employment in Thailand
Dealing with the crisis: coping strategies of migrant workers
Harassment, xenophobia and prejudice
After the crisis — to stay or to return?
7 Burmese migrant workers between two worlds
Appendix One History of registration exercises for irregular (temporary) migrant workers
Appendix Two Currency exchange rates: Thai baht/Burmese kyat/US dollar
Thailand's Hidden Workforce
：Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers
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