The Changing Configuration of Rural–Urban Migration and Remittance Flows in Vietnam

The literature on domestic migration and remittances in developing countries has focused heavily on the acceleration of rural-to-urban migration and the one-way flow of remittances to migrants’ rural families. A longitudinal and panel study of seven rural communities in three regions of Vietnam disc...

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Published inSojourn (Singapore) Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 602 - 646
Main Author Luong, Hy V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute 01.11.2018
ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Subjects
Computation
Cost benefit analysis
Costs
Developing countries
Development economics
Economic aspects
Ethics
Internal migration
LDCs
Migrants
Migration
Money transfer
Obligations
Payments
Relatives
Remittances
Rural areas
Rural communities
Rural urban migration
Social aspects
Statistics
Transnationalism
Vietnam
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Summary:The literature on domestic migration and remittances in developing countries has focused heavily on the acceleration of rural-to-urban migration and the one-way flow of remittances to migrants’ rural families. A longitudinal and panel study of seven rural communities in three regions of Vietnam discovers a changing configuration of domestic migration and remittance flows in the country that is not easy to detect from national aggregate statistics. Numerous migrants from rural communities in the Red River Delta in the North and Mekong Delta in the South have returned home, migration in pursuit of education has increased, and remittance flows have become multidirectional. This changing configuration has to do not only with migrants’ calculation of economic costs and benefits but also with a socioculturally constructed web of moral obligations to family members.
ISSN:0217-9520
1793-2858
DOI:10.1355/sj33-3d