Empowerment issues in Japan’s care industry: Narratives of Filipino nurses and care workers under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) labour scheme

• Main Authors: Vilog, Ron Bridget T., Arroyo, Keren Happuch Ma. D., Raquinio, Tezla Gael G.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Medical personnel—In-service training > Japan; Foreign workers, Filipino > Japan > Social conditions; Medical personnel, Foreign > Japan > Social conditions; Philippines > Foreign relations > Japan; Japan > Foreign relations > Philippines; International Relations; Medicine and Health Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2517; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/3516/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

Japan has been accepting foreign nurses and care workers through an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. For more than ten years of its implementation, the EPA framework with the Philippines has confronted tremendous political hurdles from conservative po...