ASEAN Challenges on Illegal Migrant Workers in Fishing Industry: Case Study of Thailand

Paween Rungtaweechai

2018

Abstract

This paper argues that not only in the western countries where migrant workers play an important role in the lower jobs but in developing countries like Thailand are also in great need of migrant workers. At present, there are many migrant workers moving to Thailand especially from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. The number of migrant workers is expected to increase. After the opening of free movement of labor which one part of ASEAN Economic Community’s goal is. ASEAN focused more on the skilled labor but in fact, low- skill workers are a significant group of people in the labor market who also deserve a good management. The research found out that the rise in global seafood demand gives the big opportunity to many countries to expand the export market and make more benefit to the country and without migrant workers the fishing industry in Thailand couldn’t grow this fast but on the other hand this kind of opportunity also increase the problem of human right abuses in Thailand’s fishing industry and the main reason is because of mainly of the workers there are illegal migrant workers. Case study of Thailand is examined, how the Thai government take an action on this issue after being pressured by the international organization and it concludes by the challenge for ASEAN to take an important role to find the long-term solutions to solve this problem without sending them back to their country but make a policy and migration system to be more effective.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rungtaweechai P. (2018). ASEAN Challenges on Illegal Migrant Workers in Fishing Industry: Case Study of Thailand. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 219-225. DOI: 10.5220/0010275300002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Paween Rungtaweechai},
title={ASEAN Challenges on Illegal Migrant Workers in Fishing Industry: Case Study of Thailand},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={219-225},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010275300002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - ASEAN Challenges on Illegal Migrant Workers in Fishing Industry: Case Study of Thailand
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Rungtaweechai P.
PY - 2018
SP - 219
EP - 225
DO - 10.5220/0010275300002309