Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam Gebunden

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam. It addresses a wide range of important topics including Vietnam¿s household registration system (ho khau) migration trends remittance behaviour and social networking. In addition it examines migrants¿ earnings their children¿s schooling housing issues and their families¿ consumption behaviour in their destination cities. The book is mainly based on new data from the Australian National University's ¿Study of Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam with Insights from China and Indonesiä (VRUM) project whic h identifies migrants from the large-scale representative ¿Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey¿ 2012 (VHLSS2012). In addition to the data from the VRUM project the book draws on other widely used data sources to provide a comprehensive picture of rural-urban migrants in Vietnam. By highlighting the issues and challenges brought about by the large-scale rural-urban migration in Vietnam the book helps researchers and policymakers more effectively formulate policies to respond to those challenges. Moreover Vietnam¿s experience can serve as lessons learnt to other transitional developing countries.