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Ratchada Jayagupta, Ph.D.

Position

Director of Asian Research Center for Migration

Expertise

Dr.Ratchada JAYAGUPTA is a senior researcher and a lecturer at the Asian Research Center for Migration at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. She is also the Thailand’s Representative to ACWC for Women’s Rights, a member of National Sub-Committee on anti-human trafficking especially for women and children, and a member of National Sub-Committee on anti-human trafficking in the Mekong Sub- Region. In August 2018, she received the distinguished award from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Ministry of Justice, Thailand; the Network Model Award 2018 in saluting her collaboration with DSI on the prevention and protection of the organised crime in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Her area of expertise is Voluntary and Forced Migration; Female Labour, Migrant Worker, People Smuggling, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery, Statelessness, the Promotion of Women’s Participation and Decision Making in Politics, and the Promotion and Protection the Rights of Women and Girls.

Phone number

+66 (02) 218 7231

Email

ratchada.ja@chula.ac.th

Qualification
Institute name

Doctor of Philosophy Program in Development Management (International Program)

National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand

Master of Arts in Policy and Government Development Theology

University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA

Master of Business Administration (Administration)

Edwood College, Madison, USA

List
Year

Supang Chantavanich and Ratchada Jayagupta. A Chapter on Immigration to Thailand;“Immigration to Thailand: The Case of Migrant Workers from Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia” in Uma A. Segaal Doreen Elliott, and Nazneen S. Maydas (eds.) Immigration Worldwide: Policies, Practices, and Trends, Oxford University Press, 2010.

2010

Jayagupta, Ratchada. 2009. The Thai Government’s Repatriation and Reintegration Programmes: Responding to Trafficked Female Commercial Sex Workers from the Greater Mekong Sub-region; published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Journal Compilation 2009. 3.2.3

2009

With Professor Dr. Supang Chantavanich, a chapter on “Management Policy on foreign migrant worker in Thailand: นโยบายและการจัดการแรงงานต่างชาติใน ประเทศไทย” – Thai version, in “Promoting awareness on foreign migrant worker’s rights protection: การสร้างความตระหนักในการคุ้มครองสิทธิแรงงานต่าง ด้าว” in collaboration among Ministry of Labor, International Organization for Migration (IOM), The National Human Rights Commission, and Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM) at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University.

Member of the Research Team: Thai Team and Laos Team on “Cross Border Migration between Thailand and Lao PDR: A Qualitative Assessment of Lao Migration and Its Contribution to HIV vulnerability”: 2005. ISBN: 974- 9942-72-8.

2005