Bangkok A Haven For Asian Migrants

[LaoPo]

Bangkok a haven for Asian migrants

"From early childhood, Bo knew what she wanted to do with her life - leave her Burmese village and cross the border to Thailand."

"The government estimates that 2.3 million migrants are now living in the country - though given the difficulties of documenting illegal workers, the actual figure could be much higher."

Source:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6121228.stm

LaoPo

[LaoPo]

Another excerpt from the link, above:

"Many are based in the capital, Bangkok, which is rapidly becoming known as one of the world's major hubs for migrant workers.

Some are skilled professionals - mainly from Western countries, Japan, China and India. Given the relatively inexpensive cost of living, they can live at a standard of luxury that is beyond their reach back home.

But the vast majority are from Thailand's poorer neighbours - Burma, Laos and Cambodia."

LaoPo

[drummer]

I would think that the number of illegals in BKK alone goes far beyond 2 million.... I looked at the numbers in another thread and roughly calculated the number of European border runners to be over 500,000 .... the number of Burmese, Khmer, Philipino, Indian, Chinese and Lao each far far far outnumber the European border runners (those are not the European's on work permits or Non-Os...)

[LaoPo]

I would think that the number of illegals in BKK alone goes far beyond 2 million.... I looked at the numbers in another thread and roughly calculated the number of European border runners to be over 500,000 .... the number of Burmese, Khmer, Philipino, Indian, Chinese and Lao each far far far outnumber the European border runners (those are not the European's on work permits or Non-Os...)

500,000 European border runners.......a bit excessive won't you think ?

That's would be 10,000 border-runners every week...(just from Europe....) ?

LaoPo

[Scott]

I think most of those migrants live in a 3 km radius of where I live!