Identification of Unidentified Migrant Workers Dead in Thailand
Keywords:
Migrant Workers, Missing Persons, Unidentified Bodies, IdentificationAbstract
Migrant workers play an important role in driving the economy of the destination country. Thailand is one of the ASEAN countries that is considered as a destination for migrant workers, both skilled and unskilled labors. Mostly, these unskilled labors enter Thailand by themselves or through illegal brokers and human trafficking. These illegal migrants cannot access the process of registration provided by the government which lead to the lack of the personal data recorded, no identification cards and no work permits. Therefore, when they died, they will become the missing persons of the families in the origin country and the unidentified bodies in Thailand which trends to increase every year. So the identification uses forensic processes e.g. genetic fingerprint dental, etc. Each method has limitation by many factors such as condition of the bodies data and implementation. Moreover, the most important are ante-mortem data and post-mortem data. The problem is the illegal migrant workers do not have the information to identities himself. When he died, and could not be identified thus becoming an unidentified Bodies.In addition, there is no data from family to compare between them. The problems above lead to a study identification of unidentified migrant workers dead in Thailand. In order to study problems and find the ways to prevent, solve missing persons and unidentified bodies in Thailand. Including recommendations for establishing standards collect data migrant workers dead in Thailand in order to relevant agencies to practice foe reduce the number of missing persons and unidentified bodies in the future.
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