Temporary Shelters and Surrounding Communities - Livelihood Opportunities, the Labour Market, Social Welfare and Social Security

This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).This volume reviews the livelihood opportunities for displaced persons in temporary shelters and in the surrounding communities. It explores labor-market conditions and provides recommendations for improving opportunities. The editors discuss the current policies of the Royal Thai Government towards displaced persons on restrictions for settlement that impede access to welfare, justice, education and health care. Service provision for displaced persons are identified here, as well as access to justice and other key services, including Thai services outside the settlements, and the potential for conflict with the local Thai population over resource allocation. Summarizing the results of a highly important research project this volume provides realistic policy recommendations for a durable solution for refugees at the borders. Policymakers from governments, international organizations and NGOs will benefit from its findings and conclusions.

List of contents

Research methodology and profiles of the shelters.- Literature review.- Thai labour market.- Survey findings.- Conclusion and recommendations.- Conceptual Framework.- Current situation of Social Welfare and Social Security.- Potential access to Thai services.

Product details

• Assisted by: Yongyuth Chalamwong (Editor), Supang Chantavanich (Editor), Naruemon Thabchumpon (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9783319027883
• ISBN: 978-3-31-902788-3
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 16 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 382 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 229 p. 24 illus., 23 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace; Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Migration, C, Environmental Policy, International Relations, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Migration, immigration & emigration, auseinandersetzen, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Emigration and immigration, Human Migration