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Migrants of the Mekong / Hossein Jalilian and Glenda Reyes -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Cambodia / Chan Sophal -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Lao PDR / Department of Statistics, National Economic Research Institute -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Thailand / Srawooth Paitoonpong ... [et al.] -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Vietnam / Nguyen Thi Kim Dung and Cu Chi Loi -- Migrants of the Mekong / Hossein Jalilian and Glenda Reyes.

International labour migration can be characterized in three ways — as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an economic necessity. It is the only viable solution to realize their basic human right to a decent life. GMS worker movements to Thailand typify all three characterizations of international labour mobility. While this book focuses on the economic dimensions of international labour emigration, principally from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to Thailand, it recognizes at the very outset the equal standing of non-economic motivations for migration.