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Oct. 6, 2009 -- SAMUT SAKHON, THAILAND: TUN, 37 years old, and his wife, KHAI, and their baby daughter, KHANWAND, in their one room tenement in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Tun has lived in Thailand in for 15 years and has a Thai work permit. He was smuggled to Samut Sakhon from the Thai/Burma border near Kanchanaburi, Thailand. His wife came to Thailand from near Myawaddy, Burma three years ago to work in a fish processing plant in Samut Sakhon. The Thai fishing industry is heavily reliant on Burmese and Cambodian migrants. Burmese migrants crew many of the fishing boats that sail out of Samut Sakhon and staff many of the fish processing plants in Samut Sakhon, about 45 miles south of Bangkok. Migrants pay as much $700 (US) each to be smuggled from the Burmese border to Samut Sakhon for jobs that pay less than $5.00 (US) per day. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press

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Oct. 6, 2009 -- SAMUT SAKHON, THAILAND: TUN, 37 years old, and his wife, KHAI, and their baby daughter, KHANWAND, in their one room tenement in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Tun has lived in Thailand in for 15 years and has a Thai work permit. He was smuggled to Samut Sakhon from the Thai/Burma border near Kanchanaburi, Thailand. His wife came to Thailand from near Myawaddy, Burma three years ago to work in a fish processing plant in Samut Sakhon. The Thai fishing industry is heavily reliant on Burmese and Cambodian migrants. Burmese migrants crew many of the fishing boats that sail out of Samut Sakhon and staff many of the fish processing plants in Samut Sakhon, about 45 miles south of Bangkok. Migrants pay as much $700 (US) each to be smuggled from the Burmese border to Samut Sakhon for jobs that pay less than $5.00 (US) per day. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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