Migrant children need education, legal status – Mahidol researcher
A Mahidol University researcher urged the government to improve education and legal migration measures for almost a half-million Southeast Asian children in Thailand illegally.
Presenting the results of research done by for the university’s Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies on International Children’s Rights Day Nov. 20, Mark P. Capaldi said migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar have brought nearly 500,000 children into Thailand. Most of them, he said, are here illegally, with no travel documents or citizen rights and largely receive no education.
Thitirath Dechprom
