Urbanization, Migration, and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh City in Comparative Perspective - Couverture souple

Luong, Hy Van

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9971694557 ISBN 13 : 9789971694555

Editeur : NUS Press, 2009

Synopsis

With the shift to a market economy, Ho Chi Minh City became a magnet for migrants and experienced rapid growth. Migration provides labor for economic growth in Ho Chi Minh City, and remittances sent by migrants to rural communities help to limit urban-rural inequality. But rural-urban migration creates a heavy burden for the city's physical and social infrastructure. Urbanization, Migration, and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis presents the results of a major interdisciplinary research project that gathered data on more than one thousand households in Ho Chi Minh City over a three-year period, and on migration flows at the urban destination and in four sending communities in different regions of Vietnam. The study shows that migration to Ho Chi Minh City has been shaped both by urban-rural inequality and by regionally diverse socio-cultural dynamics. It also demonstrates that despite official claims concerning poverty reduction in Ho Chi Minh City, urban poverty rose, particularly among migrants. The research findings indicate that microcredit and other poverty reduction programs had little impact on the socio-economic mobility of households, but that the well-being of many households improved as a result of growth-related economic opportunities as well as the effects of social networks and processes of household formation.

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À propos de l'auteur

HY V. Luong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NUS Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9971694557
• ISBN 13: 9789971694555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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• Personne responsable: non disponible