泰國第一本，深入探討語言使用對於基層民眾工作機會與經濟上影響之研究報告

◎本研究報告以英文發表，並附上中文摘要，讓各界更能了解泰國弱勢族群的語言使用議題。
◎作者為聯合國組織及泰國國家發展院研究員，長期觀察國際發展與社會議題。
◎本書可作為聯合國2030年可持續性發展目標系列叢書。

本書中文書名為《泰國庶民和弱勢群體的草根式語言學習和語言使用》，內容以泰國基層社會老百姓，如孤兒院童、難民中心的難民、按摩店女郎、街頭工作的年輕人等為研究對象，探討這幾個不同弱勢群體的語言學習議題。
本書是全泰國到目前為止最具系統式的大曼谷地區弱勢群體的語言議題研究，報告顯示，學習外國語言對於邊緣化群體民眾十分重要，語言技能可以改善他們的經濟狀況，減少貧困。

Research, as reported in this book, addresses how does the language a person speaks, reads & writes affect one’s opportunity to hold what types of job, and be economically successful or unsuccessful in the context of Thailand, continental Southeast Asia/ASEAN? This book is interested in how foreign/second language education helps the marginalized groups (e.g., orphans with disabilities, asylum seekers, urban refugees) achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as defined by the United Nations.
This book stresses the need to let the marginalized groups (e.g., asylum seekers, urban refugees, orphans with and without disabilities, street workers, bargirls/love entrepreneurs) learn foreign/second languages (whether English, Chinese, Japanese and Thai). Foreign/second language skills are important for the socially excluded minority groups and individuals to better their situations, reduce poverty and further their pursuit of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

作者簡介：

李育修

1978年年底生，台灣高雄鼓山左營人。美國印第安那大學（布魯民頓校區）博士，國立政治大學長榮桂冠講座系列演講人，長期任泰國國家發展院研究中心研究員，兼任聯合國亞太經社會（聯合國亞洲總部）組織發展和職員單位的顧問，先後執教和專題演講下列課程：定性研究方法、都市難民的語言溝通議題、聯合國長官學習中文的動機。近年來曾任倫敦社會研究中心、國立成功大學、國立清華大學、新加坡國立大學和新加坡南洋理工等研討會的與談人和場次主持人。

Hugo Yu-Hsiu Lee has been an award-winning researcher at the Indiana University Bloomington (USA) and the National Institute of Development Administration (Thailand), and Harvard University's member of e-courses (Harvard Kennedy School). He currently serves as one of the United Nations Consultants, United Nations Organizational Development & Staffing Unit (United Nations Headquarters, Asia / Bangkok duty station).