The process of sharing attitudes brings about benefits, not only for adolescent migrants, but also for the community. Allowing adolescent migrants to share attitudes leads to the exposure of hidden issues in the community. Limiting an adolescent migrant’s opportunity to share attitudes and experiences, particularly work experiences, may increase the level of social insecurity, instances of child labour, and risks in the community.
Currently, there is a scarcity of opportunities for adolescent migrants to share attitudes in public. Adolescent migrant workers face the challenges of state strategies to manage and control their movement—through the complex system of nationality verification, immigration administration, and national regulations containing biases that spread to local authorities’ and natives’ perceptions and citing concerns of national security. Few adolescent migrant workers can access information about the right to free expression, labour rights, and human rights. Accompanied with their culture of expression, which also influences the frequency and pattern of sharing attitudes, these barriers silence them, as they have to be selective in what they share in order to avoid conflict. Adolescent migrants are discouraged from sharing attitudes and expressing interests, particularly views and ideas involving their work and economic activities. They are perceived as people who live mainly for work, not as those who form groups to discuss their problems and attitudes, and their ideas are not valued for making change in society.
The limited opportunity for expression among migrant workers, accompanied by biases and systems controlling and managing migrants that thwart the opportunity to share experiences and perceptions related to economic activities, imply that situations in this area are unlikely to be resolved by government plans. The implementation of social policies with the cooperation of solely NGOs may be insufficient to bring about positive changes for the community, unless there is an understanding of their roles, the relationship between NGOs and migrants, and the roles of community-based multi- agents and unless there is an encouragement to share attitudes in the community.
It is interesting to create a cooperative atmosphere in the community and to set up projects that allow more spaces for migrants of all ages to share attitudes. These spaces accept the equality of individuals’ expression and minimize social difference. The effectiveness of policy initiatives that raise awareness of social exclusion and acceptance of adolescent migrants’ shared attitudes may happen if there is cooperation from the industrial sector, households, community leaders, and agents from self-help groups. I propose that sharing attitudes should be stimulated within and across the network of community-based supporters. The strengthened network of supporters may be developed into a network of negotiators who are able to bring about positive changes that increase the level of community self-dependence. If cooperation were in place across community-based supporters, NGOs, and government, there would also be enhanced unity, as natives and migrants would co-create solutions and strategies to address child labour and human trafficking, and the negative aspects in the community would become national issues of concern. Further, natives’ perspectives of the network of migrants and adolescent migrants would improve with respect to the potential contribution of adolescent migrant workers and the network of migrants.
The continuation of plans created by community-based agencies for an increasing ability to share productive attitudes online and within self-help groups and to increase the frequency of sharing attitudes is also necessary. Self-help groups should emphasise the process of improving the potential of individuals to contribute to ideas that benefit and develop the community. Further, cooperation between NGOs, the educational sector, the industrial sector, and community-based agencies may lead to a more inclusive society and improve individuals’ opportunities to share attitudes relevant to economic activities, academic perceptions, and life lessons.
Organising self-help group activities can be a strategy to increase engagement in the process of sharing attitudes among adolescent migrants. Cooperation across the NGO and educational sectors and activities that promote the sharing of attitudes can benefit (young) participants. Their level of literacy, knowledge of the prevention of exploitation, and the prevention of risks such as AIDS, drugs, and sexual harassment increase through information that NGOs provide. Individuals’ confidence in the level of achieved academic knowledge and life lessons also improve. These changes can bring about the possibility of sharing attitudes with their friends and an improved quality of shared perceptions.
There should be open space for the sharing of attitudes in the workplace and effective responses to perceptions shared by migrant workers in cooperation with the industrial sector. Activities in the workplace should go beyond aims to entertain workers, creating a cooperative atmosphere in which there exists a process of sharing attitudes. Since there are small units of self-help groups formed in the workplace, there should be space in the workplace for sharing attitudes relevant to working life. Young migrants should be encouraged to form a group to discuss problems in the workplace.