The Promoting Factor for Co-existence with Thais: A Case Study of Migrant Workers in Pathum Thani, Thailand

Abstract

This research aimed at finding the promoting factors for co-existence with Thais of the migrant worker in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand. Data was collected from four hundred of migrant worker living in Pathum Thani Province. The research instrument was a ratingscale questionnaire. For data analysis, descriptive statistics included frequency, mean, percentage and standard deviation were applied for hypothesis testing, t-test statistic and oneway ANOVA also applied for this research. The findings revealed that most migrant workers came from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. There were ten promoting factors for co-existence with migrant worker which all of them was at the high level. The first three factors which had highest scores were 1) language and communication factors 2) law and security factors 3) religion factors. From the hypothesis testing, it was found that there were statistically significance at 0.05 level between samples with respect to nationality, age, income and duration of residing in Pathum Thani on the opinions regarding promoting factors for coexistence with Thais.