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Institute for Social Development Studies

 
 
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Internal and international migrants

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  • Research

Since 2002, the Institute has joined regional team of institutions doing collaborative research on social protection in Asia, an initiative of The Ford Foundation. The Vietnam report has been published as book and used by the Committee for Social Affairs of the Vietnam National Assembly.

The Rockefeller Foundation is another major funding organizations for ISDS’ work on migration. For the years 2005-2007, the Foundation supported ISDS to do study and publish a book on social protection of migration in Vietnam. The book is again disseminated by the National Assembly. For the period 2008-2009, The Rockefeller Foundation has funded the Institute to conduct a large-scale survey on impact of internal migration on sending and receiving areas.

For international migration, ISDS has been cooperating with the University of Western Ontario (Canada), Pai Chai University (South Korea), and Sun Yat Tien University (Taiwan) to carry out a research on transnational migration of Vietnamese females for work and through marriage in Asia. The study focuses on gaps in immigration/emigration policies and various vulnerabilities of female migrants, particularly their rights violation at both sending and receiving countries. The research is funded by the International Development Research Centre of Canada. ISDS plans to work closely with Korean and Taiwanese to use the findings yielded by research to advocate for rights-based migration policies and programs in the three countries.

  • Advocacy and information sharing

Advocacy for rights and social protection for rural-urban migrants was carried the National Assembly, with ISDS’ technical support: two dissemination workshops on the issues of migrants’ vulnerabilities and rights were organized in Hanoi where participants comprised of members of the National Assembly as well as representatives of government. A newsletter on migration and social protection was produced and disseminated to the Assembly and People’s Councils in all 64 provinces in Vietnam.

Collaboration with the Vietnam National Television resulted in two television reports on migrants’ vulnerabilities and their social protection needs. These broadcasts were aired nationwide four times in total.