Women on the Move | Rolf Jensen
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This book is about a group of rural women in Vietnam who leave their husbands and children at home and go to Hanoi, often for weeks or more at a time, to work as roving street vendors. An important feature of Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms that began in 1986 was that the household was made responsible for its own economic well-being. For many rural families, increasingly unable to survive on agriculture alone, this has meant a growing reliance on the market economy for an outside source of income. For the families of roving street vendors, like many other rural families, women are the ones who assume this responsibility. They migrate to work in the informal sector of Hanoi's rapidly growing urban economy, but they do this precisely so that they and their families can maintain their rural identities. They must, consequently, balance the conflicting demands that are imposed on their time between the need to be in Hanoi to earn money and the need to be at home for a variety of ceremonial,...
Specificaties
- Aantal pagina's
- 164
- Auteur
- Rolf Jensen, Donald M. Peppard, Jr.
- Druk
- 2013
- Ondertitel
- Hanoi's Migrant Roving Street Vendors
- Taal
- en
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9786045618349
Artikelnummer: 9786045618349