Reconfiguring families in contemporary Vietnam

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Reconfiguring families in contemporary Vietnam

edited by Magali Barbieri and Danièle Bélanger

(Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific)

Stanford University Press, c2009

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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"This volume brings together some of the presentations given at a conference titled 'Post-transitional Vietnamese Families: Exploring the Legacy of Doi Moi,' held in Paris, France October 21-23, 2004."--Acknowledgments, p. ix

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : state, families, and the making of transitions in Vietnam / Danièle Bélanger and Magali Barbieri
  • State and the family : reproductive policies and practices / Catherine Scornet
  • Health care and the family in Vietnam / Anil Deolalikar
  • The family : a cornerstone in the current fight against HIV/AIDS / Myriam de Loenzien
  • Doi Moi and older adults : intergenerational support under the constraints of reform / Magali Barbieri
  • From youth to adulthood : benchmarks and pathways in modern Vietnam / Peter Xenos ... [et al.]
  • Family change in Vietnam's Red River Delta : from war, to reunification, to renovation / Rukmalie Jayakody and Vu Tuân Huy
  • The legacy of Doi Moi, the legacy of immigration : overseas Vietnamese grooms come home to Vietnam / Hung Cam Thai
  • Daughters, work and families in globalizing Vietnam / Danièle Bélanger and Katherine Pendakis
  • A home divided : work, body, and emotions in the post Doi-Moi family / Truong Huyên Chi
  • Household headship in the Red River Delta, Vietnam : the political construction of the family / Bussarawan Teerawichtichainan
  • Household structure and employment strategies in a changing economy / Xavier Oudin
  • Rural-to-urban migration in Vietnam : a tale of three regions / Hy Van Luong

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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the wide-ranging institutional transformations that took place reconfigured the ways families produce and reproduce. The downsizing of the socialist welfare system and the return of the household as the unit of production and consumption redefined the boundaries between the public and private. This volume is the first to offer a multidisciplinary perspective that sets its gaze exclusively on processes at work in the everyday lives of families, and on the implications for gender and intergenerational relations. By focusing on families, this book shifts the spotlight from macro transformations of the renovation era, orchestrated by those in power, to micro-level transformations, experienced daily in households between husbands and wives, parents and children, grandparents and other family members.

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