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Social Mobility Springboard: Occupational Prestige of Thai Labour Brokers
Sprungbrett der sozialen Mobilität: Berufsprestige thailändischer Arbeitsvermittler
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Abstract International labour migration is one of the major issues of our time. Records at present total around 200 million people working outside their country of birth. This rapidly increasing phenomenon is examined in a large number of studies on migration, most of which, however, focus on experiences and... mehr
International labour migration is one of the major issues of our time. Records at present total around 200 million people working outside their country of birth. This rapidly increasing phenomenon is examined in a large number of studies on migration, most of which, however, focus on experiences and practicalities of migrants at the place of destination. In this study, we provide insight into another issue of migration study by presenting occupational prestige as an indicator of social mobility of Thai labour brokers who were return migrants from overseas employment. The data was collected via structured interview with 321 samples obtained by systematic sampling from all provinces in the Northeast of Thailand during the years 2010-2011. Data analysis for social mobility was performed based on occupational prestige. The results indicated that occupational prestige of labour brokers (0.1934) was higher than their former occupational prestige for agricultural occupations (-0.3100) and industrial/service occupations (0.1800). Moreover, social mobility of labour brokers could be classified in the upper vertical mobility category of the "Occupational Mobility."... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
vertikale Mobilität; Arbeitsvermittlung; Südostasien; horizontale Mobilität; Rückwanderung; Arbeitsmigration; Migrant; Thailand; soziale Mobilität; Auslandstätigkeit; Berufsmobilität; Berufsprestige
Klassifikation
Migration
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
return migrants; Thai labour brokers
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 335-347
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 42 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Forum: Community Transformation in Asian Societies: Selected Case Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.42.2017.3.335-347
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)