Rural-urban migration and environmental change: vulnerability nexus from the Vietnamese Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City

Clara Jullien (), Thi Thu Trang Ngo and Gwenn Pulliat ()
Additional contact information
Clara Jullien: GC (UMR_8504) - Géographie-cités - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité
Thi Thu Trang Ngo: VNU - Vietnam National University [Hanoï]
Gwenn Pulliat: UMR ART-Dev - Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UM - Université de Montpellier

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This chapter examines the interplay between the environment and socioeconomic inequality in spontaneous migration patterns through the perspective of vulnerability. It aims to understand the out-migration trajectories that connect the Mekong Delta to Ho Chi Minh City, while highlighting the inequalities that both produce and result from the exposure to intensifying environmental hazards. The paper draws on a literature review on migration and environment in the Mekong Delta, as well as the results from a 2019 research project conducted by the Oxford Committee for Relief Famine (Oxfam). It is revealed that migrants come to the city searching for higher and more stable incomes, although environmental factors may also be hidden behind economic factors influencing the decision to migrate by affecting income sources in the delta. However, migrants are likely to find themselves facing economic, social, legal, and environmental precarity and insecurity in the city.

Keywords: Environment; Precarity; Migration; Ho Chi Minh City; Mekong delta (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06-27
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05296603v1
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Stéphane Lagrée; Huynh Thi Phuong Linh; Etienne Espagne; Alexis Drogoul. Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region, Agence française de développement, pp.201-236, 2022, Hors-série, 978-2-37902-015-5

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-05296603v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05296603

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().