On 3 July 2019 at 6 PM the report Jobs in SEZs: Migrant Garment Factory Workers in the Mekong Region was launched at SEA Junction. The report presents the findings of a research conducted by the Mekong Migration Network (MMN) and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on labor and migration issues in Mekong SEZs through a gendered lens.
Photo by Tipakson Manpati
Event poster
Reports were ready togive out to participants
Sign in time
The event started withintroduction to SEZs report
SEZs: incentive forgovernments & investors
SEZs: A 'chequered history'
Participants were focusingon the discussion
Panelist talked aboutSEZs in the Greater
Mekong Sub-region
The garment industryin the Mekong
Participants who came latersat on the back row
SEZs in the Mekongstudy areas
Thilawa SEZ in Myanmar
Phnom Penh SEZ in Cambodia
Manhattan SEZ in Cambodia
Tak SEZ in Thailand
Dr. Kyoko Kusakabe discussedmajor findings of the report
One of the report's findingsfound that workers are
confident of their skills
The worker in SEZs sentremittent to support
other family members
Participants full of house
Sai Aung Tun discussedabout recommendations
for SEZ in Thailand
Mae Sot-Myawaddyfriendship gate is the
border where migrant workers