Peasants on the Move

Rural-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region

Bibliographic Data

ID19916652
AuthorsLi Tana, Tana Li (0000-0002-9139-9218, corresponding author)
Year1996
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePeasants on the Move (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherISEAS Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1355/9789814376846
OpenAlexW647063170
Open LibraryOL38384297M
ISBN9789814376846
LanguageEN
Citations received18

Almost all developing countries are plagued by the problem of peasants crowding into cities in search of a better life. For scholars of and visitors to Vietnam, it is increasingly clear that the problem has also arrived in this recently freed socialist economy. Is it going to get worse before it gets better? What is officialdom’s response to the social disruptions and friction it causes? This ISEAS study completed at the end of 1993 is one of a few early surveys of this urban drift, and provides empirical data on the spontaneous migration to Hanoi from its rural environs. It also draws on a vast corpus of journalistic and academic literature in Vietnamese as well as government documents and decrees. The final work provides a picture of the migration pattern, the lifestyle of migrants in the city, the institutional changes that have been energized by this movement, and its many political and socio-economic implications

Economic geography · Geography · Regional science · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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