tailieunhanh - Discrimination against poor immigrant workers in Vietnamese urban areas

This article analyses the discrimination faced by immigrant workers in some basic activities of the urban life. According to the authors, discrimination is one of the causes that solidify the disparities and unbeatable distance between the poor immigrants and urban communities. It is due to discrimination that the daily life of immigrant workers has become closed-up, distanced and disintegrated from that of the communities in which they reside and work in. | Vietnam Social Sciences, (171) - 2016 PHILOSOPHY – LAW – PSYCHOLOGY – SOCIOLOGY Discrimination Against Poor Immigrant Workers in Vietnamese Urban Areas Pham Van Quyet * Tran Van Kham ** Abstract: Discrimination is one of the main obstacles to social inclusion faced by poor immigrant workers in urban cities of Vietnam nowadays. Identifying the nature of discrimination as well as the perception of immigrant workers on discrimination are necessary in order to find the appropriate measures to address this issue. This article analyses the discrimination faced by immigrant workers in some basic activities of the urban life. According to the authors, discrimination is one of the causes that solidify the disparities and unbeatable distance between the poor immigrants and urban communities. It is due to discrimination that the daily life of immigrant workers has become closed-up, distanced and disintegrated from that of the communities in which they reside and work in. Key words: Discrimination; social inclusion; poor immigrant workers; Vietnamese urban areas. 1. Introduction The rapidly increasing urbanization rate in Vietnam in the past two decades has triggered a powerful flow of migration within the country, particularly the migration flow from rural to urban areas. One of the most prominent flows is that of workers from rural areas to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. According to data released by the General Statistical Office, in 2013, the immigration rate to Hanoi was and to Ho Chi Minh City . Accompanying these immigration flows were numerous social issues that emerged in the urban life and were faced by the immigrants themselves. These involved issues in urban management, pressure on infrastructures, and social inclusion of the immigrants in terms of employment, income levels, housing, culture, lifestyle and social services. This research will conduct 34 an analysis on the obstacles and difficulties faced by immigrant workers(*)in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh