{"id":5048,"date":"2021-07-06T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T05:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:13:40","slug":"20210706-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/events\/20210706-2\/","title":{"rendered":"23 July. Seminar “Gender, Ethnicity, Technical Intern Training Program”"},"content":{"rendered":"

IGS Seminar “Gender, Ethnicity, Technical Intern Training Program”
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Date:<\/strong><\/td>\n23th<\/sup> July, 2021 (Fri)<\/td>\n\n

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Time<\/strong>:<\/td>\n14:30-17:30 (JST), 12:30-15:30(WIB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Online Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n(Zoom Webinar\uff09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guest Speaker:<\/strong><\/td>\nNaoko Sunai (Ph.D. candidate, Universit\u00e9 Laval\/ Project Lecturer, Tokyo Gakugei University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nWaode Hanifah Istiqomah (Ph.D candidate, Hitotsubashi University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Discussant:<\/strong><\/td>\nAvyanthi Azis (Lecturer, University of Indonesia)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moderator:<\/strong><\/td>\nKeiko Hirano (Project Lecturer, IGS)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language:<\/strong><\/td>\nEnglish and Japanese (with consecutive interpreting)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Registration:<\/strong><\/td>\nZoom Registration form<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Research presentation Abstract<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cPandemic and Gender \/ Ethnicity: Difficulties and Solidarity of Vietnamese Women in Japan\u201d
\nNaoko Sunai
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Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, there have been discourses on the difficulties of “women” in Japan, but they tend to lack the perspective of ethnicity, and there has not been enough discussion on migrant women. In recent years, however, an increasing number of women of Vietnamese origin have been living in Japan, and since the pandemic, some Vietnamese women have faced challenges such as job loss, income decline, and pregnancy. Subaltern counterpublics (Fraser 1992) have also emerged among Vietnamese to support those women in the catholic community. With the perspectives of ethnicity and gender, this paper will focus on Vietnamese women living in Japan and clarify the impact of the pandemic on them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Making of \u201cideals trainee\u201d: Case study on Technical Intern Trainee Program between Indonesia-Japan\u201d
\nWaode Hanifah Istiqomah
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The number of Indonesian young people coming to Japan through the Technical Intern Trainee Program (TITP) has increased rapidly over the last decade. According to the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, more than half of the sixty thousand Indonesian population in Japan have a resident status as Technical Intern (TI). Dispatchment of Indonesian Technical Intern, which started in 1993, initially began with the sending of young and unmarried men engaged in the construction and manufacturing sector before expanding to women candidate and other sectors. This presentation will focus on the pre-departure process in Indonesia and argues that the whole procedure\u2015from the recruitment to departure\u2015may serve as a mechanism of control in disciplining candidates to construct their body and behavior as \u201cideals trainee\u201d. The idea of pre-departure training as a \u201ccivilization\u201d in Indonesian women migrant workers case (Killias, 2019), shared strikingly similar aspect with TITP sending regime between Indonesia and Japan. One of the points should be especially discussed here is the strengthen of masculinity during the whole process. In addition, I will present how Indonesian technical trainees’ perception and understanding regarding this matter.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Biographical notes
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Naoko Sunai<\/strong><\/a> is a Ph.D. candidate at Univiersite Laval(Canada). She conducts academic research on women\u2019s labor migration from Vietnam to Taiwan and Japan with gender perspective and migration system theories. Her research focuses on technical intern trainees in Japan and domestic workers in Taiwan. She also studies migrants without status of residence in the host societies. Her book Slave Labor: The Reality of Vietnamese Technical Intern Trainees<\/em>(Kadensha) received the \u201cJournalism Award for writing on poverty\u201d by Anti-Poverty Network in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Waode Hanifah Istiqomah<\/strong> is a Ph.D. candidate at Hitotsubashi University. She has been conducting research about migration trajectory of Indonesian Technical Trainee and their integration after return to the origin community.<\/p>\n

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Avyanthi Azis<\/strong><\/a> is a labor migration specialist with a background training in international relations. Her current long-term research (with the University of Indonesia) examines Indonesia\u2019s positionality and policies as an emigrant nation and explores the possibility of tapping diaspora potentials in the protection of Indonesian migrant workers. Her latest academic publication (co-authored with Ridwan Wahyudi), \u201cImperfect victims and an imperfect protocol: reflecting on the trafficking experiences of Indonesian migrant fishermen\u201d is part of a special issue in Journal of Human Trafficking <\/em>that marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Palermo Protocol.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Organizer:<\/strong> IGS, Ochanomizu University
\nCo-organizer:<\/strong> JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), \u201cDomestic and Care Workers in Japan in the Age of International Gendered Division of Reproductive Labor: A Genealogy of Solidarity\u201d \uff0819H01578\uff09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","events_category":[119],"class_list":["post-5048","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","events_category-events-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"events_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events_category?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}