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We’re Migrants! Citizen Journalism Training | Call Closed

14-15 March 2026

Mahidol Migration Center (MMC) at Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University, in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM) Thailand and Labour Rights Foundation ( LRF), invites applications for a training on “We’re Migrants! Citizen Journalism Training.”

Migrant Elderly Care Workers in Singapore : Assisted Living

Wednesday , 7 January 2026 , 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Beyond the Harvest: Exploring Health Conditions of Thai Migrant Labor Workers in Israel

Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 5:30 PM 7:00 PM

Victim/Survivor Justice: Confronting Sex Trafficking Cases from Thailand to Europe and the United States

Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 9:00 AM 11:00 AM

Book Discussion: African Migration to Thailand: Race, Mobility and Integration

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:30 PM 7:00 PM

Governing by paper: mediating textual border and negotiating mobility in Thailand

Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 12:30 PM 1:30 PM

Policy Entrepreneurship and the Drafting of Refugee Law in a Non-Signatory Country: The Case of Thailand

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2:00 PM 3:00 PM

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Migration is a movement of hundred of billions that connects us in and out of Asia. Join our webinars, hybrid media and journalist training programs, and interact with our policy dialogues. We keep you informed and engaged with the pressing issues on changes in migrant workers rights, refugees, sex and labor trafficking, family migration, gender and sexuality, climate induced migration, and conflict zone migration.

The percentage of overcharged cases by recipients of registration fees. 79% of migrant workers were overcharged in completing the registration process, having to pay more than 10,000 Baht ($303 USD), instead of 8,480-8,680 Baht ($257-263 USD), as prescribed by the government.

Methods of payment for registration and situations of debt 64% of those who became indebted to their employer

Read full report in English here

Events

The Migrant Workers’ Real Costs and Debts in Thailand