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

• Published in: Sojourn (Singapore) Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 602 - 646
• Main Author: Luong, Hy V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...