Abstract
This paper’s aim is to study the problems Thai migrant workers face in agricultural farming in New Zealand and to provide guidelines for solving these problems. This study used in-depth interviews conducted between the years 2007 and 2012, with accidental sampling, and the data were analyzed using a content analysis. The study found that the main motivation of Thai workers is to send remittance back home to pay off family debt. Many Thai workers came to work in New Zealand because their relatives motivated them, and the problems they face while there include a limitation of working visas, English language barriers, and an inability to find work. In order to solve these problems the Thai government should train Thai workers both before and after working aboard.
Highlights
The international migration of labor has benefited both origin and destination countries (Athukorala, 1992; Kaur, 2010)
The in-depth interviews consisted of four main questions: what is your motivation to work in New Zealand? Why did you come to work in New Zealand? What are the obstacles Thai migrant workers face? and what support was given by the Thai government?
We found that the main motivation for working abroad is that Thai workers wanted to receive more income and send remittance back home.Manypeople primarily migrate to destination countries because those countries provide higher wages than their countries of origin does, allowing them to send more money to their families and help to improve living standards and clear debts
Summary
The international migration of labor has benefited both origin and destination countries (Athukorala, 1992; Kaur, 2010). Unemployment is a one factor that leads laborers to migrate away from their home countries (Manning, 2002). The economic crisis was one of the factors that caused unemployment in Southeast Asian nations and these countries have adopted various policies to ease this problem. Some countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Thailand were able to combat the problem, while others are still working to halt the crisis (Kaur, 2009). Countries like Indonesia, the Philippines, and Bangladesh have adopted policies for sending laborers overseas to ease the unemployment problems at home (Kaur, 2009; Agbola & Acupan, 2010)
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