Attending the conference, there were representative leaders of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the heads of affiliated institutes under VASS, representatives of ministries and departments of Vietnam and more than 70 scientists from Vietnam and international experts from Russian, the UK, Japan, Korea, Norway, the US, Brazil, Argentina, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Representing the organizing department of the conference, in the VASS side, there were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Nguyen Anh, Vice President of VASS, Director of the Institute of Sociology and Dr. Dang Minh Duc, Deputy Director of Institute for European Studies. In Russian side, there was Prof. Sergei V. Ryazansev, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Head of the Center for Social Demography of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the RAS.
In the opening speech, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Nguyen Anh, Vice President of VASS stated that migration has been a long-standing issue in the history of human development. The allocation of population and workforce among countries was a noticeable feature in international situation these days, and became a remarkable trend in the context of integration and new geopolitical realities, especially in globalization. Besides positive effects to promote growth, international migration was a process that needed management and intervention through cooperation among several countries.
There were various reasons leading to migration, such as wars, armed conflicts, security, politics, slow-growth socio-economics, natural disasters, and climate change as seen in many countries and regions. However, it could be said that economic factors were the main reasons behind increasing trend in international migration flows. To face the risk of severe shortage in the workforce, many developed countries in the EU, North East Asia and North America had relaxed immigration policies for foreign workers and opened the door for migrants to contribute to sustained growth.
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International Migration Report 2015 of United Nations stated that proper policies would lead to several benefits from migration to sending and receiving countries as well as migrants themselves. However, in fact, discrimination, development gap and cultural and social differences were barriers for migrants to get on well with the community. Social inequality and discrimination against people with low living standards had resulted in protest and legal violation among immigrant community, which had created unstable security and politics in some countries. It was easy to see that immigrants had fewer chances to participate and integrate equally in receiving countries. Human rights of migrants were not enforced and respected in the context of complicated security and politics in many countries and regions. However, it was important for sustainable development to raise the voice of all social classes and fairly allocate resources and welfares.
In this current situation, organizing scientific forums like this conference was meaningful. The main purpose of this conference was to look for theoretical and practical issues in migration in the context of regional and global integration under the impact of globalization, thence share research results and experiences to contribute to stabilize migration flows and migrants’ lives.
In the welcoming speech in the conference, Prof. Sergei V. Ryazansev, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Head of the Center for Social Demography of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the RAS outlined causes and effects of migration on human life. Increasingly strong international economic integration had raised a high demand for labour mobility between countries. Also, economic, politic and social crisis in many countries and regions had become a reason leading to an increasing trend in migration and a rise in immigrants and refugees to some countries and regions. The root reason behind this crisis was partly from strategic competitions and geopolitics of nations, especially great countries. Migration did not only put a strain on job opportunities and salary in receiving countries but also caused concern about security and social issues including cultural, ethnic and religious conflicts.
The conference panorama
After opening ceremony and greeting, the conference was divided into 3 sessions: Session 1: “Demographic and migration processes in ASEAN” with 10 presentations including: 1) Migrant flows into Malaysia: policies and challenges by Abdul Rahman EMBONG, Emeritus Professor in Sociology of Development, Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), University Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia); 2) New trends of economic development in South-East Asia and the Russian-Vietnamese relations by Vladimir V. MAZYRIN, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Center for Vietnam and ASESAN studies The Institute of Far Eastern Studies RAS (Moscow, Russia); 3) Best Practices in the Management of Labour Migration in East and South-East Asia by Jerrold W. HUGUET, independent consultant on population and development, international advisor to the Asian Research Center for Migration; 4) Labour migration in Vietnam ASEAN and Northeast Asia: status and prospects by Nguyen Canh TOAN, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Institute for European Studies of the VASS (Hanoi, Vietnam); 5) Vietnamese come to Cambodia! Cambodian go to Thailand by Sam SEUN, International Relations Institute of Royal Academy of Cambodia (Phnom Penh of Cambodia); 6) Labor migration in the Mekong Subregion by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dang Nguyen ANH, Vice President of the VASS, Director of the Institute of Sociology (Hanoi, Vietnam); 7) Migrant children and Education for All in Thailand by Chalermpol CHAMCHAN, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand); 8) Brazil and China - Trade relations by Alexis T. DANTAS, Dr. (Economics), Professor of the University of the State of Rio-de-Janeiro and Maria Teresa T. B. LEMOS, Dr. (History), Professor of the University of State of Rio-de-Janeiro (Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil); 9) The problem making the space contested: land grabbing and migration in the borderlands in the Russian Far East by Norio HORIE, Professor Center of Far Eastern Studies of the University of Toyama (Toyama, Japan); 10) International labour migration from Vietnam to other ASEAN receiving countries - current issues and challenges by Vu Ngoc BINH, Senior Adviser, Institute for Population, Family and Children Studies (IPFCS).
The conference panorama
Session 2: “Demographic and migration processes in Vietnam” had 9 presentations: 1) International migration of the Vietnamese in the new world context: an overview by Nghiem Tuan HUNG, Institute of World Economic and Politics of the VASS (Hanoi, Vietnam); 2) The demographic structure of the population of Russia and Vietnam in the 21st century by Valentina G. DOBROKHLEB, Doctor of Economics, professor, Institute of Social and Economic Studies of Population, RAS; 3) Vietnamese migration in Korea Seongjin by Assoc. Prof. KIM, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Duksung Women’s University; 4) Vietnam in international migration processes by Roman V. MANSHIN, PhD (Economics), Leading Researcher of the Center for Social Demography of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia); 5) Vietnamese migration to Argentina and other Asiatic migrations by Cynthia A. PIZARRO, Professor at the School of Agriculture of the University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina); 6) Tendencies of development of integration processes in Vietnam: internal and external migration of citizens of Vietnam by Nguyen Quoc Hung, Ph.D, Researcher at the Center of the Russian strategy in Asia Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Economics, Moscow (Russia); 7) Socio-economic and demographic factors of building nuclear power plants in Vietnam by Artem S. LUKYANETS, PhD (Economics), Leading Researcher of the Centre of Social Demography of the Institute of Socio-Politic Research of the RAS (Moscow, Russia); 8) The determinants of internal migration in Vietnam in 2005-2014: preliminary results from a gravity model by Vu Quoc HUY and Luong Thuy DUONG, Institute of Regional Sustainable Development (IRSD) of the VASS (Hanoi, Vietnam); 9) Adaptation strategies of Russian migrants at the labor market in Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Korea by Liliia V. MAKSIMOVA, Senior lecturer of the Department of Human Resource Management and Labor Economics, School of Economics and Management, Ekaterina M. CHAMBAISHIN, Bachelor of School of Economics and Management, and Igor S. MAKSIMOV, Master student of School of Natural Sciences, Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), (Vladivostok Russia).
Session 3: “Russian-Vietnamese migration relations” has 11 presentations: 1) Migration attitudes of young Vietnamese to study abroad: whether Russia has a chance to get the Vietnamese students? by Sergey V. RYAZANTSEV, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Head of the Center for Social Demography of the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the RAS (Moscow, Russia); 2) Publication activity of Vietnamese scientists in the Russian scientific journals by Elena V. RAYSKAYA, Director and General the Editor-in-Chief of the “Economic Education” Publishing House (Russia); 3) Migration between Russia and Vietnam: the problem of trafficking in women by Svetlana Yu. SIVOPLYASOVA, PhD in Economics, Leading researcher, Centre Demography, the Institute of Social-Politic Research of the RAS; 4) Vietnamese students in the Far Eastern Federal University by Prof. Aleksandr Ya. SOKOLOVSKY, Director of the Vietnamese cultural and educational center of the Far Eastern Federal University, PhD on Philology Sciences; 5) Labour migration from Vietnam to the participating countries of the EAEU in terms of deepening economic integration by Aleksandr A. TER-AKOPOV, Postgraduate Student of the Center of Social demography of the Institute Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Youth Policy Department of Moscow Psychological and Social University (Moscow, Russia); 6) Russian-speaking and Russian-speaking community economy in Southeast Asia by Assoc. Prof. Marina N. KHRAMOVA, PhD (Physic-Mathematical), Leading Researcher of the Centre of Social Demography of the Institute Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) and Nikolay G. KUZNETSOV, Ph.D, research associate of the Moscow Psychological and Social University; 7) Migration potential of educational Vietnamese students in Russian by Elena E. PIS'MENNAYA, Dr. (Sociology), Professor of the Department of Theoretical Sociology of the Financial University under Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia) and Anastasiya S. MAKSIMOVA, Postgraduate Student of the Center of Social demography of the Institute Socio-Political Research of RAS; 8 Adaptation and integration of the Vietnamese in Moscow as a positive migration trends by Irina S. KARABULATOVA, Doctor of Philology, The Institute Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia); 9) Historical features of migration and current status of Vietnamese diaspora in Russia by Gul'nara I. GADZHIMURADOVA, PhD, Senior Researcher of the Centre of Social Demography of the Institute Socio-Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) ; 10) Adaptation strategies of Vietnamese workers in Russia by Victoria Y. LEDENEVA, Doctor of sociology, professor, Нead of the Department of conflict and migration security, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia); 11) Vietnamese in the Russian Far East by Dmitry P. ZORIN, Student of Peoples Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), Economic faculty (Moscow, Russia).
This conference was the chance for academics, individuals and policy-makers to meet, exchange, discuss and cooperate in research to study and seek solutions for issues related to migration, promote benefits and contributions of immigrants in the region and worldwide./.
Nguyen Thu Ha
