"Due to the long running civil war, poorly recorded human right abuse, lack of job opportunity, economic hardship and political instability tens of thousands of Myanmar citizens of people of diverse social backgrounds are fleeing their home land resorted to settle in neighboring country, Thailand. Most of them are ethnic minorities from rebel held areas such as Karan state, Shan state and Kachin state in search of better lifestyle , political freedom and higher income in economically better off its neighbor Thailand. There are also pull factors which contributed migrants to seek job opportunity in Thailand being the fact that some of them are persuaded by their relatives who have already existed in destination country. Moreover, relatively higher income also attracts migrants to settle down in Thailand.".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­26 July 2015.