CROSS BORDER MIGRATION

Overview

191 million people throughout the world live outside their home countries with about 58 million or one third of those living in the Asian and Pacific region. International migration is part of the region’s economic, social and political fabric.

CROSS-BORDER MIGRATION is the movement of people, drawn by a set of circumstances, both pushing them away from their own country and pulling them towards another, that results in their movement across borders into a new country. In Southeast Asia, regional cross-border migration is high, and almost exclusively concerned with the mobility of labor from underdeveloped to rapidly developing zones within the region. One such example of this can be seen through the study of the influx of migrants from Myanmar (Burma) into Thailand, both documented and undocumented.