Journal of Development Studies
Volume 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-25

Visiting marriages and remote parenting: Changing strategies of rural-urban migrants to Hanoi, Vietnam (Article)

Locke C.* , Hoa N.T.N. , Tam N.T.T.
  • a School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
  • b Centre for Gender and Family Studies, Southern Institute for Sustainable Development, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
  • c Institute of Family and Gender Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanosi, Viet Nam

Abstract

Despite the ongoing centrality of marriage and reproduction in Vietnam, family and spousal separation is an increasing reality for many poor rural-urban migrants. We offer a social relational analysis of reproduction to explore how migrant men and women in their peak child-bearing and child-rearing years negotiate conjugal strategies and expectations. Labour migration for these poor men and women involves high costs for family relations, social identities and emotional experiences which are strongly patterned by gender. This social relational analysis of reproduction deepens analyses of changing marriage relations and studies of internal labour migration. © 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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Index Keywords

family structure labor migration Viet Nam gender relations Hanoi marriage rural-urban migration internal migration
Link
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2011.629650
ISSN: 00220388
Cited by: 17
Original Language: English