The institutional context influencing rural-urban migration choices and strategies for young married women and men in Vietnam

Locke, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1810-1902, Nguyen, Thi Ngan Hoa and Nguyen, Thi Thanh Tam (2008) The institutional context influencing rural-urban migration choices and strategies for young married women and men in Vietnam. Working Paper. School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

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Abstract

This report draws together secondary data and informed opinion relating to the wider context in which young married rural-urban migrants must craft strategies for managing their reproductive and family lives. In contrast to long standing patterns of male migration, the increasing numbers of migrants and the emergence of new forms of migration mean that young married women are increasingly moving for work too. The report outlines the wider situation in which these dynamics are occurring: the growing inequalities in the context of doi moi, the declining barrier that household registration poses to mobility, and the changing opportunities for work in the city. It also reviews changing gender relations in Vietnam with particular attention to changes in marriage and marital relations, in sexuality and fertility and in parenting. Finally it explores how changes in social entitlements in Vietnam may affect these migrants with special attention to maternal health, child health and children’s education. The report concludes that migrants with young families and new marriages face a plethora of barriers and opportunities that they must negotiate and that the strategies they formulate are dynamic and involve complex trade-offs.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2011 11:11
Last Modified:	24 May 2023 05:35
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/27892
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