Fertility and abortion: Burmese women's health on the Thai-Burma border

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"In Thailand's Tak province there are 60,520 registered migrant workers and an estimated 150,000 unregistered migrant workers from Burma. Fleeing the social and political problems engulfing Burma, they are mostly employed in farming, garment making, domestic service, sex and construction industries. There is also a significant number of Burmese living in camps. Despite Thailand�s developed public health system and infrastructure, Burmese women face language and cultural barriers and marginal legal status as refugees in Thailand, as well as a lack of access to culturally appropriate and qualified reproductive health information and services..."

Creator/author: 

Suzanne Belton and Cynthia Maung

Source/publisher: 

Forced Migration Review No. 19

Date of Publication: 

2004-01-00

Date of entry: 

2004-06-08

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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