Visiting Marriages and Remote Parenting

Changing Strategies of Rural–Urban Migrants to Hanoi, Vietnam

Bibliographic Data

ID20302128
AuthorsCybèle Locke (0000-0003-1810-1902, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Nguyen Thi Ngan Hoa (b Centre for Gender and Family Studies, Southern Institute for Sustainable Development , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam), Nguyễn Thị Thanh Tâm (c Institute of Family and Gender Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences , Hanoi , Vietnam)
Year2012
Volume48
Issue1
Pages10-25
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220388.2011.629650
OpenAlexW2128929208
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited37

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

Biology · Centrality · Demographic economics · Economics · Negotiation · Reproduction · Social capital · Social relation · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology