Migration and Care Institutions in Market Socialist Vietnam: Conditionality, Commodification and Moral Authority
研究了越南市场化改革后，红河三角洲农村移民家庭如何利用家庭和亲属之外的照护制度应对不安全感，揭示了这些制度在提供福利时日益增强的条件性和商品化，以及不同移民家庭获取能力的差异。
Since socialist Vietnam embraced a market economy in the mid-1980s, high population mobility has engendered shifting forms of insecurity in rural livelihoods and family lives. This article discusses how migrant households in a Red River Delta rural district draw on institutions of care beyond family and kinship to deal with such insecurity. These institutions simultaneously respond to local people’s changing needs and aspirations, and attempt to exert social and moral control. I show the increasing conditionality and commodification in the entitlements they provide and the differential ability of migrant households in accessing them. These rationalities are constitutive of the changing ways in which the institutions exert moral authority.