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Vietnamese Women Migrating for Work to Europe
31 October, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
SEA Junction and the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) are organizing a knowledge sharing and evidence-based advocacy for socio-economic inclusion of migrant and trafficked women from Southeast Asia to Europe: both those who currently live in Europe and those who have returned to their home countries. To achieve the objective of promoting rights-affirming labour migration policies and anti-trafficking measures on these migration routes, we are holding a series of six-monthly webinars with the title “Towards Safe Southeast Asia-Europe Migration Corridors”, which will look at current and emerging challenges and possible policy solutions.
In the first event, Maruja M.B. Asis, Director of Research and Publications at the Scalabrini Migration Center gave an overview of migration from Southeast Asia and, in the second event, Khuat Thu Hong and Nguyen Song Bao Anh provided an overview of Vietnamese women migrating for work overseas. In this third event, we continue from the previous one and focus on the migration of Vietnamese women to Europe in particular. Khuat Thu Hong and Ha Hoang Yen of the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS) will present departure country perspectives, while Mariko Hayashi and Joanna Garnier respectively of the Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC) and La Strada Foundation will present destination country perspectives.
The event will be held on 31 October 2022 at 4.00-5.30 pm (Bangkok Time) on Zoom (Link: http://bit.ly/SEA-EUROPE-MIGRATION) and Facebook Live: SEA-Junction and GAATW page. After the presentation, a Q & A session will follow moderated by Rosalia Sciortino, Founding Director of SEA Junction.
Speakers’ Profiles
Khuat Thu Hong is the founder and Director of the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS), an independent research organization located in Hanoi, Vietnam. She has a B.A. in psychology in 1984 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1997. Before founding ISDS, she worked for the Institute of Sociology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences for sixteen years and for UNDP as the gender specialist from March 2000 to May 2001. Her major fields of studies include gender, sexuality and social inclusion. Khuat Thu Hong is a regular guest of national and international television and radio such as VTV, VOV, BBC, NHK, VOA and RFA and is frequently interviewed by national and international newspapers on gender and social issues in Vietnam.
Ha Hoang Yen is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of International Studies, Hanoi University (Vietnam). She received her MA in Social Foundations of Education from Eastern Michigan University (USA) and PhD from Monash University (Australia) under the Australia Awards scheme. Yen’s doctoral research focused on rural to urban migration experiences of LGBTIQ+ youth in Vietnam. Yen teaches courses on Gender and Development, Sociology and Field Research while her research interests lie in the area of gender and sexual identity, youth and development issues, particularly, migration. Yen also works with local and international NGOs conducting research and intervention programs toward empowerment and social inclusion of different groups among which are ethnic minority groups, migrant women, people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups.
Mariko Hayashi is the Executive Director of Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC), a grass-roots organisation by and for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from Southeast and East Asia living in the UK. She also works as a freelance consultant and project coordinator working with NGOs in Asia-Pacific and the UK focusing on human rights, labour and migration. Mariko is one of the co-founders of BEBESEA, as well as a trustee of Kanlungan Filipino Consortium and Protection Approaches.
Joanna Garnier is the Co-director of the La Strada Foundation, responsible for preventive measures and publications fighting human slavery. In the Foundation she runs educational projects, trains teachers and educators as well as dealing with preparation to reduce risk before travelling abroad.
Organizers
SEA Junction
SEA Junction, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA), aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions- from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK, BTS National Stadium), SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information see www.seajunction.org, join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on twitter and Instagram @seajunction
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)
The GAATW is a network of more than 80 non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world that fight against trafficking in persons. GAATW is committed to work for changes in the political, economic, social, and legal systems and structures which contribute to the persistence of trafficking in persons and other human rights violations in the context of migratory movements for diverse purposes, including security of labour and livelihood. For more information, see https://gaatw.org/.
