'Don't have to hide': Thai IDs, legal work give hope to Myanmar refugees⁣ ⁣ Next to a mound of black earth, Myanmar refugees feed soil and rice seed into a clacking conveyor machine that arranges them into ready-made planting trays for Thai farms.⁣ ⁣ The farmworkers are among their Thai boss's newest employees, with a fresh sense of job security after Thailand began permitting Myanmar refugees living in camps to work legally and granting them non-citizen identity cards.⁣ ⁣ After decades of being barred from leaving the camps and working legally, Myanmar refugees and their children began receiving non-citizen Thai ID cards in June, a step away from statelessness and towards gainful, legal employment.⁣ ⁣ Myanmar migrants have long toiled in neighbouring Thailand, but the country's civil war, triggered by a 2021 military coup, has sent even more fleeing across the border. ⁣ ⁣ Thailand's porous borders and reputation for religious and cultural tolerance have long drawn those seeking sanctu...