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SUMMARY:Middle-income trap or uneven and dependent inclusion in the East A
 sian Productive order? the case of Vietnam AND Factory work\, dormitory re
 gimes and the making of a transient workforce under FDI-led industrializat
 ion in Vietnam: the case of Thang Long Ind - Professor Pietro Masina\, Uni
 versity of Naples AND Dr Michela Cerimele\, University of Naples
DTSTART:20151028T170000Z
DTEND:20151028T180000Z
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:Southeast Asia has been suggested to have fallen into a so-cal
 led Middle-income trap\, on the one hand\, suffering the competition of co
 untries with lower labor costs and\, on the other hand\, unable to climb t
 he value chain to more value-adding productions. The presentation will arg
 ue that current obstacles for more mature and independent industrial devel
 opment are rooted in the modalities of integration of Southeast Asia in th
 e regional division of labor\, resulting in a condition of dependent and u
 neven development.  The case of Vietnam\, with high levels of FDI attracti
 on and scarce backward and forward linkages with national industry\, is hi
 ghly illustrative of this dependent model of industrial development\, resu
 lting – like in Malaysia\, Thailand and Indonesia – in labor-unfriendl
 y regimes.  AND\nBasing on the case-study of Thang Long Industrial Park (H
 anoi) the presentation attempts to detail empirically and grasp theoretica
 lly how a series of devises\, both within and outside the factory gate\, i
 ncluding a specific dormitory regime\, are part of a coherent whole that m
 akes the Vietnamese migrant workforce circulatory and structurally vulnera
 ble and transient. Light is shed on some major flaws of the pro-FDI consen
 sus prevailing in Vietnam\, including the understanding of FDI-led industr
 ialization as a major driver of the country's rural to Industrial transiti
 on\, urbanization\, and poor people's exit from poverty. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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