Abstract:
This research aimed to explore the labor migration toward to Thailand Eastern Coast with the focus on Chonburi, to determine the problems of the labor migration and the appropriate solutions for the problems resulting from this migration. The study covered 10 aspects concerning the workers' status and problems including sex, birth places, marital status, family migration, previous experiences, training, educational qualification, living condition, and previous jobs.
The sample consisted of 628 industrial workers randomly selected from 1,200 workers in 4 factors in Chonburi Province (2 in Sriracha District, and the other 2 in Lamchabang Industrial Estate, in which 50 percent of the number of industrial workers in each factory was selected). Percentage was the statistical device for data analyzing.
The study revealed that there was an equal number of male and female workers with the age ranging from 19-27 and an estimate of 39.52 percent were natives of The North East. There was also an equal number of unmarried and married workers, in which 70.21 percent of the married ones having the families with them 60.16 percent of the workers had no previous industrial training and 47.68 percent had their education ranging from Prathom 6-Mathayom 3. 53.44 percent lived in rent rooms or houses And 33 percent had working experience in factories in Bangkok prior to their present jobs.
The research suggests the most urgent problem of the workers is the one of housing. The workers could not afford to buy their own houses due to the low income and the financial inability to afford the down payment or monthly payment, and also due to the high price of houses including of those flats offered by the National Housing Project, in the industrial areas. The problems results in the workers' poor living conditions: having to share the rooms, houses or the land near the industrial sires. Without the government's talking these into considerations, and trying to find solutions for them, the areas are likely to turn into slums in the near future.