The Demand of Workforce in Fishery of Pattani Province

Abstract

This research was designed to investigate the demand of workforce in fishery of Pattani province. The purpose was to study the impacts of migrant workforce and solutions as well as the prevention from the use of migrant workforce. Qualitative research was conducted by interview and documentary review. The target group of the interview were relevant people and officials in fishing sector of Pattani province. The collected data was analyzed for creating an appropriate approach to improve the solutions and the prevention from the impact of the use of migrant worker. The research finding were as follows: 1) the use of migrant workforce was done in order to decrease the cost of wage, increase the profit and get enough efficient labor. 2) the approach of  solution and prevention from the use of migrant workforce was  to set up strict punishment measures, hiring legal migrant workforce, ensuring the fairness of wage, supervising  the registration of migrant workforce, having strict custodial arrest measures by the police as well as having clear policy of migrant workforce. This research suggested that the police should supply enough troop, equipment, instrument and budget for their law enforcement. The government should define the zone of migrant labor in order to use it as a pilot project model and transfer all knowledge to other departments.  Moreover, the government should not only amend the law to control the amount of stateless children of migrant workforce’s parents but also legislate the law and penalty forcing female migrant workforce to do permanent birth control.