The Comparing of Promoting Factor for Co-existence between Thais and Migrant Workers: A Case Study Pathum Thani Province, Thailand

Abstract

This research aimed at finding the comparing of promoting factors for co-existence between Thais and migrant worker in Pathum Thani Province Thailand. Data was collected from a group of Thais and migrant worker who living in Pathum Thani Province 400 people in each group. The research instrument was a rating-scale questionnaire. For data analysis, descriptive statistics included frequency, mean, percentage and standard deviation were applied for hypothesis testing, t-test statistic and one-way ANOVA also applied for this research. The findings revealed that most Thais monthly income not exceeding 15,000 bath (455 US$) and living in Pathum Thani more than twenty years. Migrant workers came from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos mostly was Myanmar. Most of migrant worker monthly income not exceeding 9,000 bath (273 US$) and most of them living in Pathum Thani not over 4 years. Most of both groups are female. There were ten promoting factors for coexistence between Thai and Migrant worker which all of them was at the high level. The first three factors which had highest scores from Thais were 1) Religious factor 2) Behavioral and Adaptive factors 3) Social and Cultural dependence factors, and from Migrant worker were 1) language and communication factors 2) law and security factors 3) religion factors. From the hypothesis testing, it was found that there were statistically significance at 0.05 level between samples with respect to nationality, age, income, occupation and duration of residing in Pathum Thani on the opinions regarding promoting factors for co-existence between Thais and Migrant worker.