Care Needs and Migration: Household Determinants of Internal Labour Migration in Vietnam
Migration stands as a livelihood strategy for households in Southeast Asia. Recent literature calls for the study of migration at the household level and for the consideration of care needs among the determinants of migration. Based on the case of Vietnam, this article contributes to past research b...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of comparative family studies 2021-01, Vol.52 (1), p.4-26 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Migration stands as a livelihood strategy for households in Southeast Asia. Recent literature calls for the study of migration at the household level and for the consideration of care needs among the determinants of migration. Based on the case of Vietnam, this article contributes to past research by providing a longitudinal analysis of how household care needs may influence the use of internal migration as a livelihood strategy. Using a household life-course perspective that recognizes how family care needs evolve over time, this article tests if care needs influence the propensity for a household to have one or more new member-out-migrants over time. We operationalize care needs through the household dependency ratio, health care and education expenditures. Multivariate analyses are based on longitudinal data from three passages of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey of 2010, 2012, and 2014. Results indicate that households needing to cover costs of children’s education are more likely to engage in migration than those with health care needs. These results reinforce the idea that migration requires certain conditions to occur and that the immediate care needs that require co-presence tend to prevent, rather than incite, migration at the household level. Overall, the analysis indicates that evolving care needs and household members’ capacities to provide for modify the way households organize and deploy their workforce over space and time.
La migration est une stratégie de subsistance pour de nombreux ménages en Asie du Sud-Est. La recherche récente souligne la pertinence du ménage comme unité d’analyse dans l’étude des migrations et de la prise en compte des besoins en soins (care needs) en tant que déterminants de la migration. Basé sur le cas du Vietnam, cet article contribue à la recherche avec une analyse longitudinale de la manière dont les besoins en soins des ménages influencent l'utilisation de la migration interne comme stratégie de subsistance. À partir de l’approche des parcours de vie des ménages qui reconnait la façon dont les besoins en soin évoluent dans le temps, cet article examine l’influence de ces besoins sur la propension d'un ménage à avoir un ou plusieurs nouveaux membres-migrants au fil du temps. Les besoins du ménage sont opérationnalisés selon trois indicateurs: le rapport de dépendance, le niveau de dépenses en santé et le niveau de dépenses en éducation. Les analyses multivariées sont basées sur des données longitudinales prov |
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ISSN: | 0047-2328 1929-9850 |
DOI: | 10.3138/jcfs.52.1.003 |