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Title: Falling Between the Cracks: How Poverty and Migration are Resulting in Inadequate Care for Children Living in Viet Nam's Mekong Delta
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Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: While internal, rural-to-urban migration is responsible for much of Viet Nams recent economic growth, there has been little attention directed at the ways in which migration is intersecting with poverty to leave some children particularly vulnerable to exploitation and inadequate care. Indeed, a complex household registration system, which serves to limit both legal migration and access to social services, means that many young migrants migrate illegallyand thus invisibly and the children of migrants, whether they migrate with their parents or are left-behind in the care of rural relatives, have difficulty accessing needed educational and health services. Given the diversity of childrens migration experiences, the frequency with which they migrate, and the reality that poverty exacerbates risk, a wider lens is required in order to better understand and design policy and programming to address the patterning of care and protection vulnerabilities that face children situated at the nexus of economic disadvantage and migration. Investigating the relationships between poverty, migration and child well-being, this report is one of three country case studies undertaken as part of a 2-year Oak Foundation- funded programme of work which explored the potential for greater linkages between child protection and anti-poverty work in low and middle income countries. The research draws on qualitative and participatory research methodologies to ascertain the drivers of migration, assess the key threats facing migrant and left-behind children and explore the programming options that communities believe would better protect their children.
Url: http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9306.pdf
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Authors: Jones, Nicola; Presler-Marshall, Elizabeth; Thuy, Dang B.
Publisher: ODI
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Poverty and Welfare
Countries: Vietnam