Social Mobility Springboard: Occupational Prestige of Thai Labour Brokers

International labour migration is one of the major issues of our time. Nowadays around 200 million people work outside their country of birth. This rapidly increasing phenomenon is examined in a large number of studies on migration. However, most of these studies focus on experiences and practicalities of migrants at the place of destination. In this study, we provide insight into the other issue of the migration study by present occupational prestige for indicated social mobility of Thai labour brokers who were return migrant from oversea working. The data were collected via structural interview with 321 samples by systematic sampling from all provinces in the Northeast of Thailand during year 2010 - 2011. Data analysis for social mobility was made by occupational prestige. The result indicated that occupational prestige of labour brokers was 0.1934. It was higher than their old occupational prestige both agricultural occupation and industrial-service occupation. Moreover, we found that social mobility of labour brokers was upper vertical mobility type and it was “Occupational Mobility”