Development of Program to Protect Reproductive Health and Rights of Immigrants - Based on A Research into Vietnamese Residents

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K12354
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80010:Area studies-related
• Research Institution: Taisho University
• Principal Investigator: UKAWA KO 大正大学, 社会共生学部, 教授 (70326320)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 高瀬 顕功 大正大学, 地域構想研究所, 専任講師 (90751850) ; 星野 壮 大正大学, 文学部, 准教授 (60725381)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 移民 / SRHR / 文化変容 / 国際保健 / ベトナム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to avoid unwanted pregnancy, childbirth, or abortion among labor migrants and to support their resettlement, it is necessary to develop psycho-educational programs to help them have a safe and satisfying sex life in the host society and to facilitate their access to necessary medical and health services.
In this study, we focused on Vietnamese immigrants in Japan, who are evenly divided between men and women, to understand their knowledge, perceptions, and coping behaviors regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to create a contraceptive education program that can be used after they arrive in Japan. With an understanding of "the nature of Vietnam's unique cultural transformation" based on the results of qualitative and quantitative research, a contraceptive education video was created. It was to be utilized by sending organizations of Vietnamese technical internships.

Free Research Field

文化人類学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年、国際開発の視点から途上国での女性の性と生殖に関する健康と権利の研究が散見される。またSDGsから発生したグローバル・ヘルス（後進国や先進国の低所得者などの従来、十分なケアを受けることができなかった人々が「平等にヘルスケアを受けることができる」ことを目指す）という概念に基づいた調査報告も増えつつある。しかしながら「移住者」に特化した性と生殖の健康と権利を守る「支援のあり方」まで検討した調査はいまだ見られない。本研究はネガティブに受け止められがちな移住者との共生における課題をポジティブな視点に転換するテーマ性をもった研究であると言える。