การให้ความคุ้มครองสิทธิและเสรีภาพของบุคคลไร้ที่อยู่อาศัยภายใต้กฎหมายไทย : ศึกษาวิเคราะห์จากปัญหาของสังคมไทย / อัครินทร์ อัคนิทัต = Protection of rights and liberties of homeless person under the Thai law : analyzing from Thai social problems / Akarin Aganidad
Homeless issues have existed in Thai society for decades and have become increasingly severe and tensed due to the economic and social crises. This research, thus, aims to study and understand problems of homeless person by researching and comparing Thai laws and regulations to those of other countries’ in order to introduce the concept of forming up a particular agency which is specifically responsible for supporting the homeless person and to encourage the amendment of Thailand’s Constitution 2007 in parts of its distinctness. The research reveals that the unavailability of any legitimate rights and freedom acceptance for homeless person in the Constitute provisions pushes the government to use other adjacent provisions of law. However, the purposes of those laws are mainly to precede the enforcement instead of assisting homeless person, different from many foreign countries where its statues directly render the supporting to the homeless person. Even the provision that supports homeless person is legislated in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand 2007 for the first time, the ambiguity of the concept hinders its procedure and makes it impractical. In addition, there is no determined organization that is directly responsible to help these people in Thailand. The lack of responsible agencies can bring about the ineffectiveness of solutions. Most importantly, what chronically makes the homeless issues unsolvable is the prejudice towards the homeless person of Thai people. Aside from paper research, this thesis also includes field research providing the attitude of general public and homeless person by focusing on general and legal opinions towards the homeless person. The conclusion results in the encouragement for Thailand to have specific agency for assisting homeless person as well as to amend the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand 2007 to become more obvious in concept and more practically effective in protecting homeless person.
