An estimated 150,000 refugees from Myanmar are currently in camps across the border in Thailand.
Many live in grinding poverty but it is an improvement from life in their home country, even for one community living in a garbage dump.
Families scrape together an income from other people's rubbish, with many children missing school to scavenge alongside the adults.
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Migrants caught in vicious cycle
Migrants caught in vicious cycle
Thousands of Myanmar migrants deported from Thailand end up in trafficking camps.
Thailand has begun deporting tens of thousands of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar.
Most had fled persecution or simply crossed the border in search of a better life, but landed in a cycle of corruption and crime instead.
As Al Jazeera discovered, many end up in camps run by traffickers on the Myanmar side of the border region, and have to bribe officials to get back into Thailand.
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Thailand's border drug problem
Focus of narcotics traffickers shifts from
heroin to production of amphetamine pills.
heroin to production of amphetamine pills.
Along the border between Thailand and Myanmar, authorities are battling an old problem that has taken on a new face.
For years, the border area known as the "golden triangle "was the most prolific heroin-producing area in the world.
But now, the focus of illegal drug traffickers in that area has shifted to the production of millions of amphetamine pills.
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Thai troops 'harassing' refugees
Refugees from Myanmar say Thai troops frequently threaten and harass them.
There are more than 100,000 registered refugees from Myanmar living in neighbouring Thailand. Another two million could be living there illegally.
They escaped harsh conditions in Myanmar and the Thai government has promised not to send them back home.
But many of the refugees say they are being harrassed by Thai troops who frequently threaten to force them out of the country.
Aela Callan reports from the border between Thailand and Myanmar, where the number of refugees appears to be suspiciously dropping.
