Nordic Asia Podcast - Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experience of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border

Southeastern Myanmar (Burma). The Myanmar military has carried out aerial attacks on villages: targeting schools, libraries, and villagers’ agricultural fields. In the past year, roughly one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced in the Southeast alone. Many have attempted to seek refuge in neighboring Thailand but have not been accepted as refugees. In addition to this ongoing emergency of forced migration, there are currently an additional hundred thousand refugees from Myanmar living in nine refugee camps in Thailand, which have existed for over thirty years. In early 2022, for the first time in years, there were protests in the camps over the lack of rights and demanding decreased restrictions for refugees. In this podcast, Terese Gagnon speaks with Hayso Thako about the experiences of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border and what they can tell us about approaches to humanitarianism and development more broadly.

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