Despite being essential to Phuket's booming economy, the resort island's Myanmar migrants are often mired in a legal limboMANPOWER SHORTAGE: A Myanmar migrant worker prepares a net. In search of opportunity, young migrant workers may lose the ability to dream in a hard-working life. Migrant workers' unease stems from the way they are treated as an underclass, facing police raids and exploitation by employers. Some young Myanmar migrants Spectrum spoke to said they want to return home as soon as they have earned enough. Many young Myanmar migrants intend to return home as soon as they have earned enough on the southern resort island.

Source: Bangkok Post February 12, 2017 00:11 UTC