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From the Tiger to the Crocodile
Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand
February 23, 2010

This 124-page report is based on 82 interviews with migrants from neighboring Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. It describes the widespread and severe human rights abuses faced by migrant workers in Thailand, including killings, torture in detention, extortion, and sexual abuse, and labor rights abuses such as trafficking, forced labor, and restrictions on organizing.

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ISBN: 1-56432-602-0
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Table of Contents
  • From the Tiger to the Crocodile
  • Summary
  • Maps
  • Methodology
  • I. Failures of Thai Migration Policy
  • II. Provincial Decrees—Controls on Migrant Workers
  • III. Human Rights Abuses against Migrants
  • IV. Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
  • V. Extortion of Migrants by Local Authorities
  • VI. Rights Violations in the Migration Registration System
  • VII. Labor Rights Abuses
  • VIII. Impunity for Abuses against Migrants
  • IX. Recommendations
  • Appendix I: Questionnaire
  • Appendix II: Letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva from Human Rights Watch
  • Acknowledgements
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