Wanted: Thai women with a Dutch man

The embassy should have a good idea of ​​the educational background of prospective emigrants, since 2006 people who want to migrate to the Netherlands have to take a (language) exam at the embassy. This includes recording age, gender, education level and Latin literacy. This data is used in the so-called six-monthly “Monitor Integration Exam Abroad”. Unfortunately, this monitor only records the global education level of the candidates (m/f), only the pass percentage can be found per country/location.
Perhaps the embassy in Bangkok can provide this information, perhaps material for an article about the background of Thai people who come to the Netherlands. If you look at DBS figures, these are mainly women who mostly move in with a native Dutch person and sometimes with a partner of the same origin.

Worldwide, the data of education are as follows:
“Educational level is increasing: 62 Before the introduction of the new examination requirements, the percentage of low-skilled people was constantly around 23% of the total number of candidates integrating. In the second half of 2011 and the first half of 2012, this decreased to approximately 18% and 19%. This decrease is offset by an increase in the share of highly educated people from 27% before the introduction of the new examination requirements to 35% in 2011-1 and 37% in 2012-2.” (source: integration exam monitor abroad).

I completely agree with the rest of your post:
In a survey such as the one announced here, it is important that the candidates are representative of their group. In addition, it is simply interesting to know whether the prejudice “the Thais who come here are almost all poorly educated women” (who then probably also had a job at a lower social level such as the massage sector, prostitution, hotel staff, kitchen staff, agricultural laborer) and so forth). Why is this related? Indeed, because this is one of the important factors that influence integration. Your level of education and work experience then weigh considerably. Of course, there are also other factors such as your personal ambitions (here you also read about women who had “nothing” but with the help of their partner they have become business successful, wonderful!!), flexibility (dealing with the new culture, society, etc.). ).

Regarding our personal situation: yes, it is a fact that Thai education is of somewhat lower quality and a bachelor's or master's degree is rated lower here. I would rather guess her level at something like MBO or MBO+. Her ambitions are not lacking and neither is her drive, she is super motivated to learn the language here and we are perfectly aware that as long as she does not speak Dutch fluently, she can forget about an office job. This is both a source of motivation and a source of stress, after all she has had to give up a job and future prospects that are quite nice by Thai standards and she is starting from scratch again. Hats off!

So I am curious about the results of this research, and I wish all Thai who have come here good luck, it is not always easy. Whether you had an education or not, whatever your job, it was a big step for all of them.