Immigrant Workers In Thailand Essay

DOES LEGAL IMMIGRANT WORKERS IN THAILAND RECEIVE ENOUGH SUPPORT FROM THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR ?

In Thailand, there are laws and policies for immigrant workers. Legal foreign immigrant who follows immigration regulations will fully receive the rights to work and stay in Thailand. However, some of them might not be completely supported by the government sectors due to a large number of immigrant enter into the kingdom. Immigrants in many areas might lack of social welfare from public sectors. Consequently, immigrants who lack of supports do not have a good standard of living. According to Immigration Act, Alien means any person who is not of Thai nationality under the nationality Act. Secretary of the Minister of Interior is a chairman of The

Nevertheless, legal immigrants in Thailand still do not have a good standard of living or career opportunities due to ฟa large amount of immigrants and an ability of the government sectors to assist all of them. Foreign immigrants particularly Burmese in Bangkok and Samutprakarn satisfied with their income. However, their living is not satisfying due to expensive cost of living, high costs of resident and crowded community. Immigrants rarely feel secure to live in Thailand especially burmese. A lot of immigrant workers especially in Tak province barely receive advice or help from Thais. In 2012, only six percent of immigrant workers in Chiangmai live in residents provided by their employers. Seventy-four percent live in rented apartment and house and twenty percent live in old houses which built from plywood and galvanized iron located in crowned and poor environment area. There is more than forty percent of workers who are facing with environment pollution around their residents. For nutrition, thirteen percent of immigrants in Chiangmai do not receive food supply. In case of sickness, immigrants rather go to a clinic than hospital to avoid expensive cost of medical care. In health condition, forty-two percent of immigrants do not have chronic disease and twenty-one percent have mental illness which symptoms are depression, anxious and panic. In this two cases, it shows that public sectors lack of maintaining the efficiency of their policies and regulations. Although immigrants are on average better off financially, they are living terribly. They public sectors need more performance review to be able to follow up the results, evaluate the effectiveness, and improve policies. A long term policies and regulations are also necessary especially when AEC (Asean Economic Community) is completely carry out by the end of this year. AEC will makes ASEAN into a region with free movement of investment,