A neighbourhood workshop in Thailand is an informal enterprise that usually offers low-skilled jobs. While most Thai people have left such jobs in search of better or more profitable work, migrant women from Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar (also referred to as CLM countries) have since moved in to fill this vacuum. Using the concept of human security, this paper investigates how lack of state and social support generates vulnerabilities for migrant women and how they overcome these vulnerabilities in their daily lives. The findings of this paper are based on in-depth interviews of 13 women and four men from CLM countries in Bang Bon district and Klong Luang in Thailand. The interviews, conducted between January and September 2014, reveal that (1) irregular status of migration causes legal, economic, and environmental/health insecurities, (2) very limited protection is available to the migrants, with better-than-nothing protection coming their employers in an ad hoc and unguaranteed manner; yet their relationship is natured by exploitation, (3) their current sense of insecurity is partially offset by their context, i.e. the improved sense of security when compared with their prior individual experiences.