More than 1m people from Myanmar have opted to labour in the sweatshops, fields and fisheries of Thailand rather than endure the daily struggle for survival many face at home. The global downturn has conspired to make their prospects, never rosy, even bleaker.rnAn estimated 120,000 migrant workers live in the Thai border town of Mae Sot. Most work in garment factories, seen as the best of a few bad choices. Others have to take dirty and dangerous jobs processing fish or spraying crops, where abuses, including beating and enslavement, are reportedly most common. Garment-workers say they typically take home about 70 baht ($2) a day, less than half the legal minimum wage. They dispute employers' claims that the discrepancy reflects the cost of food and lodging.
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