Vietnamese migrant networks in Taiwan: the curse and boon of social capital

Hoang, Lan Anh

doi:10.1080/01419870.2015.1080381

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“…An empirical study regarding Brazilian immigrants’ social capital and psychological well-being confirmed that Brazilian immigrants in Japan benefited significantly from bonding social capital with their extended families in terms of improved mental health [ 13 ]. Vietnamese migrant workers’ bonding social capital in Taiwan is found to be the central to the social life of Vietnamese workers, which offered not only material but also psychological support [ 14 ]. However, there is so far no empirical research on Chinese immigrants in Japan.…”

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Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Immigrants in Japan

Gong

Peng

Wang

2021

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Social capital in immigrants has drawn considerable attention from social scientists. Previous studies have paid attention to how immigrants’ bonding social capital (defined as social networks with co-ethnic residents) and bridging social capital (defined as social networks with native residents) are associated with their economic achievement. However, little attention has been paid to immigrants’ different social capital’s effects on psychological well-being. Drawing data from Chinese immigrants in Japan, we examined how these Chinese immigrants assimilated into Japanese society and how their bonding and bridging social capital related to their psychological well-being. The results show that bonding social capital directly affected immigrants’ psychological well-being, whereas bridging social capital indirectly improved their psychological well-being by improving economic status. This study contributes to previous literature on how immigrants’ different social capital is related to their psychological well-being.

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Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Immigrants in Japan

Gong

Peng

Wang

2021

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“…Engagement in extramarital sex or conjugality has notably been documented in diverse contexts of male migration, both through commercial sex and through sexual relations with other migrants or locals (Liu-Farrer 2010;Thuy & Kretchmar 2008;Lang & Smart 2002;Shen 2005;Tsujimoto 2014). In the context of Vietnamese migrants in Taiwan, extramarital conjugality represents a source of support for intimate relationships while being "minefields" offering echo chambers to intimate gossips and rumours (Hoang & Yeoh 2014;Hoang 2016). The weight of social control within their homosocial or ethnic migrant network may push male migrants to strive to preserve "reputation" and thus to refrain from involving in extramarital affairs, although instances of occasional casual sex may be tolerated (Hirsch et al 2007;Thuy & Kretchmar 2008).…”

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Interrogating Dislocated Masculinities and HIV Vulnerabilities: A Case Study of Vietnamese Migrants Workers in Southern Laos

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Petitet²,

Nguyen³

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Souvanxay Phetchanpheng et al. the Economic Quadrangle, a transnational area roughly corresponding to the Golden Triangle, few villages benefit from the economic expansion of the region. The commercial market is largely dominated by Chinese entrepreneurs and local people have a minimal commercial role. Through their transnational networks, Chinese businessmen and corporations are the main beneficiaries of the economic benefits of the North-South Corridor linking Kunming (Yunnan, China) to Bangkok (Tan 2014). In the district of Tonpheung for example, the construction sites (road, casino, hotels, etc.) of the "Golden Triangle" special economic zone started in 2008 offered few jobs to Laotian people. The majority of workers on these sites are Burmese and Chinese (Tan 2014). Similarly, the vast rail construction site started in the north of the country, which will connect by 2021 China with Laos, has drained about 5,000 workers, most of whom are Vietnamese and Chinese nationals. For this scheme, part of Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, only a small number of Lao workers, perceived as less skilled, have been employed. 1 The work opportunities offered to the younger Lao generation are consequently often limited to agrarian work and to occupations in the civil service. This intensification of cross-border migrations in the Great Mekong region has mostly been examined through the lens of border control and state sovereignty, but little is known about the lived experiences and trajectories of these Vietnamese and Chinese migrants (Molland 2017). These mobilities undertaken in a context of socioeconomic vulnerability may create new economic opportunities, but also new marital situations for couples and families. Indeed, these situations offer renewed sexual encounters for married male migrants, while heightening vulnerabilities to infectious diseases, among which HIV. This paper analyses these issues through an ethnographic fieldwork among Vietnamese migrant workers in southern Laos, in the city of Savannakhet. We mobilise the concept of dislocating masculinity (Cornwall & Lindisfarne 1994) to explore within our field of research and from a broader perspective the question of embodiment, agency and the relation between masculine styles and social contexts. Increasing transnational mobilities have indeed shaped new forms of bodily, sexual or affective intimacies intrinsically tied to power, gender, race, class and structural socioeconomic factors, which must be understood in their historical, social and cultural context. Intimacy, emotions and sexuality have long been neglected in migration studies because of the overwhelming paradigm of political economy whose equation of migrants with workforce left little space to the study of their affective, romantic and sexual desires and identities. Feminist, post-colonial and queer epistemologies and the increasing feminisation of migrations in the past decades have brought back these topics, pushing scholars to call for a "sexual turn" in the study of migration (Mai & King 20...

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“…The mobility restrictions that are self‐imposed due to financial pressure, a deep‐rooted fear for and distrust of state authority, and weaker social networks (cf. Hoang ), among others, explain their inclination for individual and isolated acts such as running away. Lan (: 79) sees the phenomenon of ‘runaway’ as occupation specific – something that arises from the prohibitive nature of domestic workers' life.…”

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“…Painstakingly, migrants carve out every little room for manoeuvre when situations permit and adjust their strategies accordingly. These everyday forms of power and resistance (Foucault, 1982;Scott, 1985) tend to prevail over more institutionalised and organised forms of power, though at a considerable cost for migrants and their families (see also Hoang andYeoh, 2012, 2015).…”

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Governmentality in Asian Migration Regimes: the Case of Labour Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan

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2016

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The phenomenon of 'runaway' migrant contract workers in Asia has attracted considerable media attention. Drawing on a qualitative study in Vietnam and Taiwan, I examine the critical links between the neoliberal governmentality rationalities and technologies, the structural vulnerabilities that they produce, and the migrant worker's 'technologies of the self'. In so doing, I point out that the 'manufacturing' of the 'ideal' migrant subject is a multi-actor and multilayered process that involves not only state and market actors but also the migrants themselves through their internalisation of subordination. I emphasise that illegality is not just a legal status but also a political tool for the state and its proxies to discipline neoliberal subjects and a social image that informs individual practice in the context of transnational labour migration.

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Vietnamese migrant networks in Taiwan: the curse and boon of social capital

Cited by 24 publications

References 47 publications

Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Immigrants in Japan

Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Immigrants in Japan

Interrogating Dislocated Masculinities and HIV Vulnerabilities: A Case Study of Vietnamese Migrants Workers in Southern Laos

Governmentality in Asian Migration Regimes: the Case of Labour Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan

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