To shed light on the issues affecting the movement of rural labour, this study adopted an empirical approach based on the case of labourers (crewmen) migrating to fishery villages in Rakhine State.Rakhine is generally regarded as a remote state, bordering Bangladesh. However,on the side facing the Gulf of Bengal is a newly developed area for Myanmar's commercial fisheries, along with those of the Tanintharyi Division. In particular, Thandwe District in southern Rakhine has shown remarkable development as a base for export-oriented shrimp fishing (both small-scale trawling and gill net) since the latter half of the 1990s (Okamoto 2008b). However, as competition among shrimp fishing intensified, shrimp resources started The administration units of Myanmar are State and Division, District, Township and Village tract.