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Thai communities still rely on their daughters abroad
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While Europe worries about trafficking and the so-called refugee crisis, villages in Thailands poorest region, Isaan, are building their hopes on women’s migration and labor abroad, writes Social Anthropologist and DIIS researcher Sine Plambech in this op-ed in the Thai magazine Isaan Record(also translated into Thai).
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