Abstract
This study is a tentative attempt to bring a new framework to analyzing the factors that induce trans-border migrants who live a dual reality, something that is not explained by the existing literature on migrants that is premised on national economic gaps as the factor that induces trans-border migration. In Thailand, educational development preceded spontaneous industrial development. Thus, foreign-affiliated factories absorbed people who have no social capital except higher education background and they came to faced with underemployment. Some of them migrated abroad for the sake of gaining a status of “successful daughter” at home. For such migrants, their life in the destination country is merely a temporal life and their true life is at home. In other words, they live dual reality.
