The Dual Reality of <i>Non-Returnable</i> Migrants

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  • “帰れない”移民が生きる二重のリアリティ
  • "帰れない"移民が生きる二重のリアリティ--自生的産業発展を伴わぬ高学歴社会化が生む越境移住
  • カエレナイ イミン ガ イキル ニジュウ ノ リアリティ ジセイテキ サンギョウ ハッテン オ トモナワヌ コウガクレキ シャカイカ ガ ウム エッキョウ イジュウ
  • The Dual Reality of Non-Returnable Migrants
  • Migrants Spawned by a Highly Educated Society Lacking Spontaneous Industrial Development
  • ――自生的産業発展を伴わぬ高学歴社会化が生む越境移住――

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Abstract

This study is a tentative attempt to bring a new framework to analyzing the factors that induce trans-border migrants who live a dual reality, something that is not explained by the existing literature on migrants that is premised on national economic gaps as the factor that induces trans-border migration. In Thailand, educational development preceded spontaneous industrial development. Thus, foreign-affiliated factories absorbed people who have no social capital except higher education background and they came to faced with underemployment. Some of them migrated abroad for the sake of gaining a status of “successful daughter” at home. For such migrants, their life in the destination country is merely a temporal life and their true life is at home. In other words, they live dual reality.

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