Doing Family’
Female migrants and family transition in rural Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12887887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vu Thi Thao (0000-0001-9319-9028, Yahoo (United Kingdom), corresponding author), Jytte Agergaard (0000-0003-0627-3475) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-119 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Population Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-1730 • E-ISSN: 1744-1749 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17441730.2012.646845 |
| OpenAlex | W2319939776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 24 |
Drawing on a case study of married female migrants from two rural villages of Hung Yen province to Hanoi City, Vietnam, this paper investigates the implications of female migration on gender roles and relations within families. The paper shows that wives' migration changes gender roles and relations within the family. Being on the move, migrant wives become the main breadwinners while their husbands left behind take on the role of carers. The migrant wives acquire a stronger voice in family matters and a strong sense of pride, worthiness and earned respect, whereas their husbands experience a loss of power. However, these changing gender roles and relations rarely result in family fragmentations; instead, families are still being sustained as migrant wives ‘do family’. By ‘doing family’, they can exploit their increasing power in an acceptable manner, so that patriarchal family ideals are not openly confronted. This paper provides a more nuanced understanding of the implications of female migration on families, i.e. the simultaneity of the reproduction of and the change in gender roles and relations within families
Demographic economics · Economics · Gender relations · Political science · Power (physics · Pride · Simultaneity · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |