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Musikawong Sudarat: In Between Democratic Labor Movements and Migrant Worker Rights [Report]

Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation Room 1107, 11F, NO.136, Section 3, Ren’ai Road, Da’an District, Taipei City

Dr. Sudarat Musikawong's main concern as a sociologist working on democratic movements is how NGOs and trade unions could approach the conundrum of temporary foreign migrant workers. Immigration policies in Asia (including Thailand, Taiwan, and South Korea) tend to be exclusionary, with little promise for citizenship or even residency for migrant workers.