Adaptation to living and working environment of Thai migrant workers in Taiwan

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to investigate the general situaton of adaptation level of Thai migrant workers, to analyze Thai workers' adaptation level to unsafe working and living environment which varied with different sizes of manufacturing companies in Taiwan and to study what policy and services have been offered by Taiwanese government to the migrant workers' rights and protection. In this research, it is hypothesized that Thai migrant workers in Taiwan who are working in small and medium manufacturing companies have lower evel of working and living environment adaptation than those who are working in large manufacturing companies. The overall research focuses on how large and medium and small manufacturing companies affect the adaptation level of Thai migrant workers in Taiwan. Questionnaire is the main tool to collect data from respondents. Totally, 373 Thai migrant contracted workers have been selected in Yun Lin County in Taiwan. Inferential statistic analysis is applied and test of hypothesis is analyzed by t-test. The alpha risk set at 0.05. The hypothesis (H1) is accepted and null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. Thai migrant workers in large company are in the fourth level of high level of adaptation which indicates that they are in average easy to adapt whereas Thai migrant workers in small and medium companies are in the second level of low adaptation level which indicates that they are in average difficult to adapt. Therefore, the finding of this resarch has confirmed the hypothesis in this study. With regard to policy and services, the basic rights and the related measures are provided in the "Report on Protection of the Rights of Foreign Workers"