The main objective of this research was to establish a prescriptive model for future resettlement design. The assessment methodology contains bivariate and multivariate analyses that include at least two groups of cross-sectional data; before and after resettlement. This data was obtained from household surveys of experimental groups at the Sirindhorn, Khao Laem, Bang Lang, and Rajjaprabha resettlements. Some villages located near to the resettlement projects were surveyed as control groups for comparison purposes. / Results of the assessment and ...

This study treated rural-urban migration as the in-migrants from other provinces into the Bangkok Metropolitan Area. The various social and economic problems occurred in the capital city are partly due to the rapid population growth. The tremendous influx of in-migrants to the Bangkok Metropolis over the past two decades may contributed to the growth rate and may turn to create greater problems. The rural in-migrants are predominantly single young men and women. The employed in-imgrants in the Bangkok Metropolis are mainly engaged in work status ...