Enhancing the development impact of migrant remittances and diaspora: the case of Viet Nam

The dual roles of transnational daughters and transnational wives: monetary intentions, expectations and dilemmas

“…As Hugo (2005: 343) succinctly reports, 'it is difficult to estimate the numbers involved in both types because of limited migration data collection systems in Asia, as well as the large scale of undocumented mobility out of Asian nations.' Yet, we know that although most studies focus on the remittances migrant workers send to their left-behind spouses and children (Agarwal and Horowitz 2002;Åkesson 2009;Funkhouser 1995;Jones 1998;Russell 1986;Wucker 2004), most remittances flowing to Vietnam come from family members living abroad with permanent residence or citizenship who constitute a visibly ageing diaspora (Anh 2005). Unlike most Latin American and Asian countries, where remittances tend to come from short-term labour migrants (Fajnzylber and Lopez 2007), the vast majority of Vietnamese remittances come from the nearly three million overseas Vietnamese, known as Viet Kieu, who live abroad permanently (Committee for Overseas Vietnamese 2005).…”

“…Over 40 per cent of these Viet Kieu reside in the United States and they account for more than 50 per cent of all remittances sent to Vietnam (Pham 2008). Unlike labour migrants, who tend to migrate without their children and spouses (Anh 2005), the Vietnamese diaspora is composed of the many variants of transnational family members who have migrated since the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.…”

Development and brain drain: a review of Vietnamese labour export and skilled migration

“…Other studies are concerned with economic impacts of outbound labour migration on households in Vietnam (e.g. Angsuthanasombat, 2007;Dang, 2005;Nguyen, 2008aNguyen, , 2008cNguyen & Mont, 2012). With regard to Vietnamese professional migration, current research tends to address problems that skilled migrants face in host countries (e.g.…”