Jesuit Mission, through Jesuit Refugee Service (Asia Pacific), funds projects among stateless and undocumented refugees from Myanmar living in quasi-permanent refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border as well as projects among prisoners in Thailand, many of whom are from Myanmar. JRS has worked in the refugee camps since since the arrival in the 1980s of refugees fleeing political instability and human rights violations in Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of people remain internally displaced inside Myanmar or living precariously as undocumented migrant workers in neighbouring countries.

Among the migrants in Mae Sot

Burmese migrants and refugees are benefitting from projects supported by Jesuit Mission in Mae Sot, a Thai town which sits close to the border with Burma. Read more...

Burma: raising questions

'I have suffered for over 20 years…but I do not give up hope…,' declared a refugee during a conversation with Fr Bernard Arputhasamy SJ, Director of JRS Asia-Pacific. Read more...