This study investigated the impact of the recent globalization process on the gender-specific migration
and changes in population distribution in Thailand, focusing on Bangkok. The main purpose of this
study is to point out the implicit consequences of the process of globalization in Thailand for the
changing demographic behavior of the Thai population. Bangkok and the surrounding region are
important to explore the impact of globalization on population in Thailand because both command and
production functions have been settling down in this city in recent years. The command function for
Thailand and neighboring countries concentrated mainly on the city center of Bangkok. It stimulated
an increasing number of the new middle class population. People from this new middle class were
likely to live in the newly developing suburbs. The production function, on the other hand, tends to
have located in the surrounding regions which caused so-called extend urbanization (McGee 1995)
and led to the development of the Extended Bangkok Region (EBR). Globalization has thereby been
acting on the migration and population distribution of these regions. To grasp the situation broadly, we
undertook a macro-scale analysis based on statistical data, and used an urban geographical
perspective to demonstrate the far-flung influences of globalization. The study focuses on the three
concentric zones of the EBR, namely the Bangkok Metropolis (BM), the Vicinity and the Extended
Urban Region (EUR).