The study on “Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand aimed to
study policies and institution arrangement for managing international migration as part
of regional cooperation initiatives and bilateral agreements. The study emphasized on
the finding out why the current management of sending workers and protecting
workers has not been effective.
The data used for the analysis came from two main majority sources; 1) the quantitative
data, including primary data on possible solutions, strategies, the secondary sources
from Socio-Economic Survey (SES) and information where necessary to explain the
socio-economic impact of migrant worker families; and 2) the qualitative study where
collected from interview of key informants, focus group discussion with families of
migrant workers, governments, brokers, and etc. As data allow, cost benefit analysis for
out migration as well as in migration from government intervention programs was
applied.