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Bangkok –<\/strong> Six years ago, several days after taking his high school exams, Ibrahim and his family fled Syria to Lebanon where they boarded a flight to Bangkok.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arriving in the Thai capital on tourist visas, they experienced freedom away from the horrors of war in Syria.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But since their visas expired, they have been living as undocumented migrants.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We thought of Thailand as a transit point,” Ibrahim told Al Jazeera, “and that we would stay one or two years. Yet after six years, our lives are stuck in limbo.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In Thailand, Ibrahim’s family applied for resettlement in the US only to wait for two years with no progress.<\/p>\n

They then requested\u00a0resettlement\u00a0in\u00a0Canada,\u00a0restarting the entire process.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Bangkok, it takes an average of three to four years to complete the resettlement process, leaving many refugees vulnerable and frustrated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’d love to live here, it’s like the Middle East. People are friendly and will talk to you, unlike people in Europe who won’t say hello,” said Ibrahim. “We no longer dream of peace, only of a passport.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Thailand is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and\u00a0the\u00a0Thai\u00a0Immigration\u00a0Act<\/span>\u00a0of 1979 views anyone overstaying their visa as an illegal immigrant, including asylum seekers and refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Refugees and asylum seekers are caught up in a police raid and transported to an immigration detention centre [Al Jazeera]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The UNHCR told Al Jazeera that Thailand is home to 103,000 refugees with an estimated 6,000 urban refugees from countries including Pakistan, Somalia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thailand was among the last countries to maintain a consulate in Damascus, making it an obtainable visa at a time when doors were shutting to those fleeing Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mirvat came to Thailand in 2012\u00a0soon after graduating\u00a0from Damascus University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Six\u00a0years later, she remains in Bangkok where she has had four children but has not been able to pursue her career.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“The most difficult thing is that our kids can’t\u00a0attend\u00a0school and have nothing to do,” she told Al Jazeera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest fear facing Bangkok’s urban refugees is arrest and as a result, many stay inside their homes for long stretches of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I can no longer go\u00a0to the market and am scared to go to the hospital. We feel scared by everything,” said Mivrat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Syrian-Palestinian refugees sell traditional food every Friday at the Islamic Center in Bangko [Panithan Kitsakul]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Refugees’ fears have recently been heightened by a major police operation that began in October with the appointment<\/a> of\u00a0Surachet Hakparn,<\/span>\u00a0the new\u00a0immigration bureau\u00a0commissioner\u00a0of the Royal Thai Police.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Operation X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner” aims to round up and detain undocumented migrants,\u00a0with asylum seekers and refugees caught up in the clampdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police raids have led to hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers being held at immigration detention centres.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month, the immigration\u00a0bureau also revoked bail for undocumented migrants who could have previously been released on 50,000 baht ($1,500).<\/span><\/p>\n

An\u00a0estimated 200 refugees from Syria\u00a0were among those summoned back into\u00a0detention.<\/span><\/p>\n

The recurrent myth that refugees are a security threat and a drain on society is simply not true. Palestinians and Syrians are incredibly productive and resourceful.<\/p>\n

Evan Jones,\u00a0Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Refugees\u00a0previously granted bail\u00a0are now\u00a0subject to\u00a0increased\u00a0harassment and arrest, said migrants and rights groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The immigration detention centre is not designed for long-term stay, but hundreds of detainees stay for more than one year,” Puttanee Kangkun of Fortify Rights told Al Jazeera.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most are overcrowded with more than 300 detainees held\u00a0in a cell designed for 70 inmates.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In violation of children’s rights under international law, children are separated from parents and siblings while unaccompanied\u00a0boys\u00a0under the age of 12 are held alongside adult men.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officially, Thai authorities claim that some refugees have fake UNHCR cards and that the operation will check their documents, and re-release genuine asylum seekers on bail.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, local refugee rights groups told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity that they were sceptical, noting that the Thai government works closely with UNHCR and can easily check its database.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Beside the UNHCR card, which has almost no meaning under domestic legal provisions, [refugees] have no other legal protection,” said Puttanee Kangkun.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We do not ask for money, only to be resettled’<\/span><\/h2>\n

The hostile environment has made a bad situation worse for refugees. Over the past year, Thai immigration police have\u00a0targeted<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>African immigrants<\/span>\u00a0in Bangkok in what has\u00a0been criticised<\/a> as\u00a0racial profiling<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Compared to Somali, Nigerian and other African nationalities, Arabs have had moments where they were able to evade authorities more easily and enjoy\u00a0some degree of\u00a0greater freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ibrahim and his mother used to supplement their remittances by selling Arab street food including shawarma, hummus, and bread at community events and near local mosques.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>But the recent clampdown on immigration has put a stop to this.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Basil, a 20-year old Palestinian refugee from Syria, explained:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>“For a long time, I could go out, eat, party and have a life here. But that has all changed now.”<\/p>\n

“Soi Arab”, the Middle Eastern quarter in the heart of Bangkok’s tourist district of Nana, is home to restaurants where young Syrian and\u00a0Palestinian refugees work without documentation.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I was paid 250 baht\u00a0($7.50)\u00a0a day for a 12-hour shift washing dishes and the owner gave leftover food for me and my family,” said Basil.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet recently, fearing police raids, owners are asking refugee workers to stay home.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Nobody is working now,” said Basil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the recent immigration raids,\u00a0refugees\u00a0Al Jazeera spoke to were not critical of the Thai government.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“We feel abandoned by the United Nations,” said Mivrat. “We do not ask for money, only to be resettled.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘Soi Arab’ in Nana district is popular with Middle Eastern tourists and some refugees have found work there [Kittipot Promprakai\/Al Jazeera]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sources told Al Jazeera that around 20 percent of the refugees from Syria in Thailand have been resettled, which is high compared to the less than<\/a>\u00a01 percent global average\u00a0for third country resettlement.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The majority were Syrian passport holders, with only around 50\u00a0individuals left in Thailand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those stuck in Bangkok are primarily Palestinian refugees whose options are more limited.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

No Palestinian refugees have been resettled in 2018, while resettlement to the US has ground to a halt since the election of President Trump.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“For many Syrian and Palestinian refugees, the sad reality is that they may never be considered for resettlement in a third country,” Evan Jones\u00a0of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network\u00a0told Al Jazeera. <\/span><\/p>\n

“With global resettlement numbers dropping, these individuals may be stuck on the fringes of Thai society for years or even decades ahead, unable to access\u00a0some of their most basic human rights.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If given a choice, many Palestinian refugees from Syria would settle in Thailand.\u00a0The majority interviewed for this story have university degrees and had established careers before fleeing the war.<\/span><\/p>\n

But within some sections of Thai society, Arab refugees are perceived as posing a security threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Thai government should accept the reality that not every refugee could resettle in third countries, so the concept of local integration needs to be taken into consideration in balance with national security concerns for a sustainable solution,” said Puttanee Kangkun of Fortify Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jones added: “The recurrent myth that refugees are a security threat and a drain on society is simply not true. Palestinians and Syrians are incredibly productive and resourceful and bring a range of skills and knowledge that could help benefit Thai society.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if the Syrian war ends, Palestinian refugees who travelled to Thailand on now-expired emergency documents have lost the right to return to Palestine. Renewing their travel documents has also become much more difficult since the\u00a0Syrian consulate in Bangkok closed\u00a0in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Refugees that Al Jazeera spoke with estimate that there\u00a0are 400 Palestinian refugees from Syria remaining\u00a0in Bangkok, with another 201\u00a0from Iraq and\u00a015 from\u00a0Gaza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For some of them, resettlement will be to a fourth rather than a third country.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Asma was born in Haifa in 1940 and as a young girl fled Palestine for Iraq. She was displaced again by Iraq’s descent into violence after 2003, living for three years in a refugee camp in Cyprus before arriving in Thailand.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“I asked the UN to send me home to Haifa,” she said. “I just want to be in my country.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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