Figure 5.1 shows the distribution of the ICS samplings according to their country of origin as follow, among 100 respondents, the majority is from Myanmar (34%) following by Japan (14%), USA (10%) and Lao (10%). 10 people are from Cambodia, 8 people are from China a, 7% of the respondents are from Australia. 2 percent represent the one from Taiwan and likewise U.K. Finally, the minority are from Germany, Spain and Italy.
For Long-term resident issue, the average duration of stay until obtaining LTR is just around 4.5 years, it would take longer …show more content…
The average duration of stay until obtaining the citizenship is around 9 years in Thailand, the period is longer if we compare to the case of Singapore and Kyoto but it will take shorter time compare to Milan. In the case of citizenship category, around 65 people from 100 people do not want to become the citizen of Thailand. 10 percent of the respondent want to become citizen, 10 people are waiting for the respond, 5 of them are nationalized as citizen of Thailand. The different also show the repeat pattern as the LTR, the one who want to become citizen or already became one is all from the three neighboring countries of Myanmar, Lao and Cambodia. The main reason they do not want to get the citizenship is due to that is not so much different with their current status (77%) follow by the difficulty of the procedure. For those who became naturalized as citizen 80 percent of them feel settle as well as they could receive better education. Compare to other cases this may not need to be the priority. However, for those three neighboring countries migrants (which are the majority of migrant in Chiang Mai), we may need special kind of permit similar to those of our comparative …show more content…
the biggest reason they do not want to reunite with their family are due to that their family member do not want to move or they do not know if they meet the requirement. For those respondents which reunited with their family member agreed that it helps them settle and wherewith ease the family life. The impact of family reunion seems to have the homogenous result to the immigrants in all of the cases. Thus for immigrant integration, the consideration on family issue should be one of the main focuses. In-term of physical aspect, the facility for family as well as the universal design can be quite