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This photo taken on September 20, 2018 show Myanmar migrants and Thai workers gathering fresh shrimp at a seafood market in the Thai coastal province of Samut Sakhon. - A "mafia" of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom's notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY MYANMAR-THAILAND-MIGRATION-LABOUR-RIGHTS,FOCUS BY SOPHIE DEVILLER AND RICHARD SARGENT (Photo credit should read LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/Getty Images)

This photo taken on September 20, 2018 show Myanmar migrants and Thai workers gathering fresh shrimp at a seafood market in the Thai coastal province of Samut Sakhon. - A "mafia" of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom's notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY MYANMAR-THAILAND-MIGRATION-LABOUR-RIGHTS,FOCUS BY SOPHIE DEVILLER AND RICHARD SARGENT        (Photo credit should read LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP/Getty Images)