The path of the young generation seeking luck: The repetitive cycle of the agricultural workforce that responds to the industrial economy of the country
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Thailand’s national development plans have been continuously focusing on the growth of industrial economy. This developmental direction has influenced the increasing of internal migration of young labor into industrial sector. It has been a common way of which local people in agricultural sector moving to the better developed areas in order to fulfil labor market of industry. This study aims to reflect the way of migrant family working in the Eastern industrial sectors and to produce a lesson of that phenomena. The mixed method was employed to collect and analyze the data. The period of data collection was from 2021 to 2022. For the first round of collecting data, the quantitative study by surveying was used to explore family structure and social context of migrants’ lives. A total of 503 households were interviewed via the constructed questionnaires. The second round was a qualitative study using in-depth interviews, collecting data from a sample group selected from the first round who were available and willing to provide information again. There was a total of 17 households participating in the project. The study results found that the majority of migrant workers come from the Northeastern region, already married or in a family The functioning of the families has been the migrants’ burden to handle among their various difficult conditions. Some let their children grow up with grandparents in other provinces, while some had to pay for day-care services. Moreover, migration is a general repeating pattern that local lives move with the hope for better jobs and higher incomes. The agricultural sector has regularly lost the young population flowing into the industrial sector. This way replays from generation to generation, while industries obtain the mismatched human resources for their growth. Suggestion indicates comprehensive development and alternative pathways for young generation.
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