Author: Truong Si Anh
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-95-01
Year: 1995
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1993
Examination Committee: A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Chairperson); Karl E. Weber, Jayant Kumar Routray (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The policies to restrict spontaneous or unplanned migration to Ho Chi Minh City were introduced soon after 1975. There is little doubt that these policies were quite effective and migration issues were of rather less concern than those of fertility and others until the second ha l f of the 1980 decade. Migration has, however, increasingly preoccupied the Cit y’s authorities, policy-makers and planners actually since the late 1980s when tens of thousands people were flocking into the City each year. As a result, the migration has increasingly been viewed as major contributors to most of the mounting urban dilemmas and problems. Hence, immense efforts have been dedicated to both decentralising the City’s population and stopping migration inflows. However, most aspects of migration have so far been still inadequate l y known. Meanwhile the migration restricting policies seemed to have become inappropriate and no longer efficient, and even causing more undesirable effects than the intended ones. With the purpose of providing a better understanding of recent migration to Ho Chi Minh City as a basis for revising and reformulating the existing policies, this study first examines the major demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the migrants such as age, sex, education, economic activity, and income. Then, based on their individual characteristics and subjective oprn1ons, the study attempts to reveal the major causes and motivations of migration, which should be crucial to making decision on interventionary policies and estimating the extent of their success. The core of this study is an analysis of the main consequences and impacts of migration on individual migrants and to a rat her limited extent also on the area of origin and destination. This way the study addresses the issues which have long been a source of controversy in Viet Nam. All this, in combination with preliminary assessments of the existing migration control policies, should provide useful premises for revising these policies. Implications and
Scholarship Donor(s): Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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