Documentary filmmaker and photographer based in South Asia.
S. R. Grasso
Collections created
Children of Migrant Labor in Southeas...
Thailand, Nepal, Myanmar, Cambodia
04 Apr 2015
An estimated 214 million persons worldwide are international migrants, along with an estimated 740 million internal migrants. Youth make up a disproportionate share of migrants from developing countries; about one third is between 12 and 25 years old. This includes millions of children under the age of 18. Migrant Children travelling with or with out their family in the South-East Asian region are most vulnerable group risking of child labor and human trafficking. Children attached to migrant worker parents can be found actively working in sectors such as domestic labor, street vending, farming, construction, waste collecting in garbage dumps and begging, often without accompanying adults or family and without safety or protection. Other common forms of child labor found in migrant communities including seafood processing, where children are often found working along side their parents in seafood markets or ship docks where seafood are unloaded, processing plants, and frozen processed food factories.
Media created
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 16
Mae Sai, Thailand
10 Jun 2015
Boys begging through the chain-linked fence separating Burma from Thailand in the thai border city of Mae Sai.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 17
Mae Sai, Thailand
10 Jun 2015
Burmese children begging at the Thai-Burmese border city of Mae Sai.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 14
Paoy Paet, Cambodia
04 Apr 2015
Cambodian children begging in the no man's land between the Thai and Cambodian checkpoints of the Paoy Paet border.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 15
Mae Sai, Thailand
10 Jun 2015
Beggar children taking a break at the Thai-Burmese border of Mae Sai.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 12
Paoy Paet, Cambodia
04 Apr 2015
Young teen working on a construction site in one of Paoy Paet's many slums.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 13
Paoy Paet, Cambodia
04 Apr 2015
Boy living in a slum in Paoy Paet, Cambodia, near the Thai border. During the evenings, many children enter the no man's land in between the two checkpoints and beg the passers by.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 09
Chiang Mai, Thailand
27 Feb 2015
Young construction worker on break at a the site of a future hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 10
Chiang Mai, Thailand
27 Feb 2015
Little girl assisting her parents on a construction site in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 11
Paoy Paet, Cambodia
04 Apr 2015
Girl living in a slum in Paoy Paet, Cambodia, near the Thai border. During the evenings, many children enter the no man's land in between the two checkpoints and beg the passers by.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 07
Samut Sakhon, Thailand
31 Jan 2015
Young teen working at the Samut Sakhon fish market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 08
Chiang Mai, Thailand
27 Feb 2015
Two young boys transport flowers from a small field in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 05
Samut Sakhon, Thailand
31 Jan 2015
Teenage boy ending his night shift from a factory in Samut Sakhon, Thailand.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 06
Loi Ta Leng, Myanmar
06 Feb 2015
Young soldier at the Shan State Army (South) National Day in Loi Ta Leng, Myanmar.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 03
Kathmandu, Nepal
09 Jan 2015
Child selling items in the street in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 04
Kathmandu, Nepal
09 Jan 2015
Child selling items on a street in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 02
Battambang, Cambodia
23 Mar 2014
Girl living and collecting waste in a garbage dump near Battambang, Cambodia.
Child Labor in Southeast Asia 01
Mae Sai, Thailand
10 Jun 2015
Child begging at the Thai-Burmese border city or Mae Sai.