IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijbglo/v9y2012i4p431-441.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An exploratory study of Nepalese migrant workers in Thailand: initial conditions and disappointing outcomes

Author

Listed:
  • John Walsh
  • Dilip Kumar Jha

Abstract

This paper describes exploratory qualitative research among Nepalese migrant workers in Thailand, based on a series of more than 60 personal interviews. The research followed a qualitative method with a semi-structured agenda aimed at encouraging respondents to explore issues of importance to themselves and their colleagues. The research indicated significant differences between skilled and unskilled workers and that the difference between skilled and unskilled relied almost entirely upon class differences in the caste-intensive sending society. There are some possibilities for business development in Thailand but these are reliant upon negotiating the currently significant differences between documented and undocumented migrants. It is not clear that this can be achieved under current conditions even though the Thai Government is seeking stable supply of semi-skilled workers for the next decade.

Suggested Citation

  • John Walsh & Dilip Kumar Jha, 2012. "An exploratory study of Nepalese migrant workers in Thailand: initial conditions and disappointing outcomes," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 9(4), pages 431-441.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbglo:v:9:y:2012:i:4:p:431-441
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=50908
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijbglo:v:9:y:2012:i:4:p:431-441. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=245 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.