When I first arrived at FED I did not know much about the Burmese migrant situation. Since arriving, I have learnt from staff and the interns about Burma's history with Thailand, Japan and the British.

What I understand about the migrant life in Thailand is that Burmese migrants face difficulty. For children facing equality, there is constant struggle for a balance and permanent education. Many children as a result do not receive the opportunity to get a basic education. Families and individuals have coped with their rights and privileges being taken away from them, much discrimination and looked down up by others. Thai government and Thai people although have given a lot of migrants work and a place to live, have made living standards in each province in Thailand different. Some places migrants must wear orange jackets to show Thais that they are Burmese, in other places Burmese migrants are not aloud a cell phone, or to be out side after 6 at night. Going on trips to learning centres and surveying migrants living around Kuraburi, Takuapa and Ban Nam Khem, I have been open to a lot of the hardships migrants face. Health wise, they are discriminated by clinics and public hospitals because of their migrant state. Some pregnant women do not receive all the health care they need, visiting clinics 3-4 times during their whole pregnancy. Visiting the rubber plantations, I learnt that a lot of the families working on the plantations are Burmese. Working all night tapping over 800 trees at a time and collecting the rubber can be very strenuous work, especially for a family of 2-3 people. I know that many migrants, if not the majority, would love to go back to their home country, so hopefully in time that can happen.