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Table 6 Migration and Exposure to Human Rights Violations

From: Migration patterns & their associations with health and human rights in eastern Myanmar after political transition: results of a population-based survey using multistaged household cluster sampling

Household exposures and outcomes

HH with in migrants

HH with out migrants

HH with no migrants

Risk Ratio: IN vs. NON

Risk Ratio: OUT vs. NON

Human Rights Violation

n, % (95% CI)

n, % (95% CI)

n, % (95% CI)

Adjusted RR (95% CI)

Adjusted RR (95% CI)

Forced Labor

46, 8.2% (1.2–15.1%)

128, 2.2% (0.9–3.5%)

1147, 3.7% (1.5–6%)

1.35 (0.66,2.78)

0.61 [0.34,1.08]

Destruction and seizure of food, livestock, or crops

39, 7.5% (0.5–14.4%)

17, 4.3% (1.4–7.2%)

1975, 8.5% (4.2–12.8%)

0.82 [0.35,1.91]

0.49 [0.24,1.02]

Confiscation of land

0, 0.0% (0–0%)

48, 0.5% (0–1.2%)

256, 0.5% (0–1.2%)

0.00 [0.00,0.00]

0.88 [0.38,2.06]

Physical injuries (gunshot, wounds, landmine injuries, beatings, stabbings)

0, 0.0% (0–0%)

8, 0.2% (0–0.6%)

40, 0.2% (0–0.3%)

0.00 [0.00,0.00]

0.62 [0.08,4.90]

Detained or tied up

0, 0.0% (0–0%)

0, 0.0% (0–0%)

10, 0.0% (0–0%)

0.00 [0.00,0.00]

0.00 [0.00,0.00]

Landmine injury in last 15 years

47, 11.4% (3–19.7%)

383, 7.0% (3.3–10.7%)

1071, 5.0% (3.2–6.9%)

1.92 [0.96,3.84]

1.07 [0.76,1.51]

Number of human rights violations experienced by household

 Zero

477, 89.7% (81.6–97.7%)

4603, 92.2% (88.7–95.7%)

21,799, 88.7% (84.4–93%)

  

 One or more

57, 10.3% (2.3–18.4%)

408, 7.8% (4.3–11.3%)

3062, 11.3% (7–15.6%)

0.83 [0.40,1.74]

0.64 [0.39,1.06]

  1. 24 HH with in and out-migration omitted from this analysis