Reserve army of Ho Chi Minh City: migrant workers in the Ho Chi Minh City's industrial parks and processing export zones under the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES
Thi Le
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ABSTRACT COVID-19 appeared in Vietnam in January 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the new strain of Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) around the globe on 1-3-2020. From 1-4-2020, Vietnam introduced social distancing to prevent the spread of the disease in society, affecting every social class, including ‘internal' migrant workers who were often formerly farmers. This paper reports on research evaluating the impact of the pandemic on the internal migrant ‘reserve army of labour' now working in industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Internal migrant workers make up the majority of employees, at 70% to 85.5% and this article offers a chance to evaluate Marxist categories of work, along with the point of view of the systems and social network approaches, to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts production activities at IPs & EPZs. The paper asks how management of workplaces in the face of the pandemic imposed coping strategies affecting levels of employment and lives of migrant workers at EPZs and IPs. Looking especially at migrant workers' strategies in facing the challenges of the pandemic, the use of Marx’s “floating, latent and stagnant” categories of the “reserve army of labour” is reconsidered on the basis of information from available statistical data and from detailed interviews and observations in the Project “Improving the effectiveness of dialogue and collective bargaining in private enterprise and foreign directed investment enterprises in HCMC” under a grant from the Ho Chi Minh City Science and Technology Development Fund, 2020-22 - HCMFOSTED.
胡志明市后备军:受新冠肺炎疫情影响的胡志明市工业园区和加工出口区的外来务工人员
摘要新冠肺炎于2020年1月在越南出现。世界卫生组织(世界卫生组织)于2020年1月1日至3日正式宣布由新型冠状病毒(SARS-CoV-2)在全球引起的新冠肺炎大流行。从2020年1月1日至2020年,越南引入了保持社交距离,以防止疾病在社会中传播,影响到每个社会阶层,包括“内部”移民工人,他们通常以前是农民。本文报告了评估疫情对目前在河内和胡志明市工业园区和出口加工区工作的国内移民“后备劳动力大军”影响的研究。内部移民工人占员工的大多数,占70%至85.5%,本文提供了一个评估马克思主义工作类别以及系统和社会网络方法的机会,以了解新冠肺炎大流行如何影响IP和EPZ的生产活动。该论文询问,面对疫情强加的应对策略,工作场所的管理如何影响EPZ和IP移民工人的就业和生活水平。特别是看看移民工人在面对疫情挑战时的策略,根据现有统计数据以及“提高HCMC私营企业和外国直接投资企业对话和集体谈判的有效性”项目中的详细采访和观察,重新考虑了马克思“后备劳动力大军”的“浮动、潜在和停滞”类别的使用胡志明市科学技术发展基金拨款,2020-22年-胡志明市科技发展基金。
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Social Identities
Social Identities ETHNIC STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.
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