Effects of the Vietnamese New Law for Working Abroad: A Case Study of Vietnamese Workers in Japan

Abstract

Without migrant policies, Japan can only recruit migrant workers under the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) and the Tokutei Gino program which is less popular. However, the exploitation and abuse of foreign trainees in Japan have been a controversial problem for a long time. A new law named Vietnamese law on Vietnamese working abroad under contract (No. 69/2020/QH14) was launched in 2020 and was in force in 2022. This law aims to address the problems related to the old law adopted in 2006 (No. 72/2006/QH11). This dissertation expected to find out the effects of the law 2020 in the case of Vietnamese technical intern trainees in Japan. Qualitative research methodology with semi semi-structured interviews is used (interviews of 3 dispatching companies in Vietnam, and online interviews of 2 trainees in Japan). Due to the small sample size, the dissertation cannot reflect the whole effects of the 2020-year law in reality. From the interview of three dispatching companies, the 2020-year has had good effects. However, the stories of two trainees showed that there is the existence of bad dispatching companies and the new law seems to have no good effects.