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- Title
Translocal Householding: Care and Migrant Livelihoods in a Waste-trading Community of Vietnam's Red River Delta.
- Authors
Nguyen, Minh T.N.
- Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines the shifting household organization of care and livelihoods in a community of Vietnam's Red River Delta that has a history of migrating to work in the urban waste trade, and has been doing so increasingly since the socialist country embraced a market economy in the mid-1980s. In Spring District, household care and livelihood activities have been taking place across the city and the countryside for decades, indicating the degree to which the rural household reflexively opens up its spatial and social boundaries in response to broader processes of change. Their trajectories reveal fluidity in terms not only of spatial mobility but also of the gendered configuration of paid work and care, and complex dynamics between household care practices and the development of waste trading as a particular migrant livelihood activity. The analysis draws on and advances the concept of 'householding' emerging from recent discussion of the globalization of social reproduction.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; RED River Delta (Vietnam); JUNK trade; HOME economics; INTERNAL migrants; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Development & Change, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 6, p1385
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dech.12130