Many Myanmar migrants unlikely to return to Thailand

29 May 2020
Many Myanmar migrants unlikely to return to Thailand
Myanmar migrant workers handling cotton thread spools in a textile factory in Pathum Thani province. Photo: AFP

Most Myanmar migrant workers, who have returned home from Thailand, have been found unlikely to return, Xinhua reported.

According to Suphaphimit Paorik, a deputy governor of Tak province, 75 per cent of over 1,800 Myanmar nationals, who crossed the Thai-Myanmar border from Mae Sot district to Myawaddy township earlier this month, responded to an inquiry posed by Thai immigration officials only to say it would be unlikely for them to come back for jobs in Thailand again.

The Myanmar nationals, who have undergone anti-pandemic measures at the Mae Sot border checkpoint, were quoted as saying they would have difficulties finding jobs in Thailand in the foreseeable future due to the pandemic and economic slump.