Abstract
ABSTRACTThis study analyzed the residential choices of labor migrants in Thailand, especially focusing on their social environment. Labor migrants tend to live in close proximity to each other and to their workplace for security reason, and also to re-create an environment where they feel like home – a home-building exercise. Such home-building exercises are traditionally women’s prerogative, and hence they also take initiative in housing choices. However, their traditional gender roles provide little help for them to care for their children or handle reproductive work in the destination. They receive little support from the family, community or State for their reproductive and care work. While developing housing policies for migrants, the study calls for a nuanced understanding of women migrant workers’ multiple roles and their need to manage competing demands at the place of destination and the place of origin.
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