“For an entire year, I worked for nothing. I had been a slave.”
This is the chilling account of a Laotian worker who crossed the border to Thailand on the promise of a job which was not what it seemed. To mark this year’s upcoming International Migrants Day on 18 December, Matthew Friedman, a former project manager with the UN Interagency Project on Human Trafficking, shares this young Laotian man’s story of debt, betrayal and deportation to illustrate the wider issues of migrant exploitation and abuse in the region.
#Laos #HumanTrafficking #Migrants #InternationalMigrantsDay #MatthewFriedman
https://southeastasiaglobe.com/survivors-story-migrant-worker-abuse-laos/
This is the chilling account of a Laotian worker who crossed the border to Thailand on the promise of a job which was not what it seemed. To mark this year’s upcoming International Migrants Day on 18 December, Matthew Friedman, a former project manager with the UN Interagency Project on Human Trafficking, shares this young Laotian man’s story of debt, betrayal and deportation to illustrate the wider issues of migrant exploitation and abuse in the region.
#Laos #HumanTrafficking #Migrants #InternationalMigrantsDay #MatthewFriedman
https://southeastasiaglobe.com/survivors-story-migrant-worker-abuse-laos/
Southeast Asia Globe
The survivor’s story, a tale of migrant worker abuse in Laos
Human trafficking and modern slavery are an ongoing narrative for exploited and vulnerable Laotian migrant workers