International labour migration by women from Vietnam to Taiwan: policy and practice

Nguyen Quynh Phuong, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad and Sundar Venkatesh

Development in Practice, 2020, vol. 30, issue 8, 1005-1015

Abstract: This article aims to investigate the efficacy of the Vietnamese government’s policy to use international labour migration, specifically domestic workers, as a tool for the economic development of women. Several context-specific factors, including social and cultural, were found to limit the size and duration of the development impact of such a policy. The article concludes that international labour migration cannot be a substitute for government policies and programmes supporting skill development and industrial investments in the poorer provinces of Vietnam, which are home to many of the labour migrants.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1782843

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