| Project/Area Number |
63043046
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Overseas Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | KOBE UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
KITAHARA Atsushi Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University, 文学部, 教授 (30107916)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUZONO Yuko Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, Iwaki Meisei University, 人文学部, 講師 (00164799)
HASHIMOTO Takashi Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Kitakyushu University, 法学部, 講師
TAKEUCHI Takao Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Kinjo Gakuin University, 文学部, 助教授 (40105747)
SHIMIZU Yoshihumi Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Momoyama Gakuin University, 社会学部, 助教授 (40132352)
AKAGI Osamu Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, 外国語学部, 教授 (10030157)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1986 – 1988
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1988)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
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| Keywords | URBAN-RURAL RELATION / LOCAL CITY IN THAILAND / EASTERN SEABOARD / MIGRANT LABORER / SEASONAL MIGRANT / INFORMAL SECTOR / TIE TO THE HOME VILLIAGE |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project tries to study on the urban-rural relation in Thailand with special reference to migrant laborers' working and living conditions at local small and intermediate cities of Eastern Seaboard region. The research cites are Klaen City, Rayong Province, Chonburi City, Chonburi Province as the main ones and Minburi, Bangkok Meiropolis as the comparative case. The research series are as follows:(1) life history of migrant laborers in Rayong, (2) working conditions of factories in Chonburi, (3) community life of migrant laborers in Chonburi City, (4) working conditions of factories in Bangchan Industrial Settlement, (5) community life of a suburban rural village.
Most of seasonal migrant laborers in Rayong are engaged in transporting woods in the forest. They organize themselves into the contract group of piece work to transport the particular kind of woods, and its elastisity makes them recruited in and out of the work daily easier than on the personal base. The limited amount of the informal sectors in a small local city as well as their strong tie with the home village make them the seasonal migrant laborer for their life instead of the settled urban inhabitant.
Migrant laborers in Chonburi are engaged in such informal sectors as recyclers of waste articles, samlor drivers and vendors. There are so many chances to work in the informal sectors as well as in the formal sectors there, that migrants laborers prefer works of urban sectors to works of rural sectors, being different from the cases of migrant laborers in Rayong. Since the better chances in the formal sectors are generally occupied by the Chonburi natives, however, migrants have to be engaged rather in the informal jobs.
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