Vulnerability and resilience on the streets: Interrogating intersectionality among Southeast Asias street vendors

Turner, Sarah; Adenwala, Ammar; Zuberec, Celia

doi:10.4337/9781788112918.00020

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“…Follow-up studies of street vendor experiences of the pandemic will help to determine the degree to which vendors and their livelihoods have been able to remain resilient and their specific coping strategies. Including more participants in future research may also deepen our understandings of the heterogeneity, as well as often interlocking forms, of social difference known to exist within street vendor populations (Trupp & Sunanta, 2017;Turner et al, 2020), and how they have been (re)shaped by the pandemic. Our findings reveal numerous commonalities in the impacts of and responses to the pandemic's first wave, but also important differences in the pandemic's consequences due to political context, links to rural hometowns and ethnicity.…”

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“…Responses by local authorities overseeing street vending activities were mixed across the three locales. Long before COVID-19, iterative bans on street vending and campaigns to 'declutter' Hanoi's streets of vendors had already reduced access to a number of favourable trading sites as well as vendors' trading rights (Turner et al, 2020). The Công an were thus fairly relentless in their pursuit of itinerant vendors even before the pandemic and notorious for collecting under-the-table fees and bribes from vendors.…”

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The utterly unforeseen livelihood shock:COVID‐19 and street vendor coping mechanisms in Hanoi, Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang

Turner

Langill

Nguyen

2021

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Well before COVID-19, municipal governments in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos were enacting policies that made street vendor livelihoods increasingly challenging. Yet, vending continues to support tens of thousands of urban households in these three countries. Vendors are often rural-tourban migrants lacking the formal education skills necessary to secure 'modern' urban employment, and despite ongoing government disapproval, vending provides a relatively low entry-cost opportunity for them to support their household's financial needs. Now add to this complex situation the livelihood shocks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as additional government restrictions across these three countries to mitigate the pandemic's impacts. Drawing on interviews with 61 street vendors in Hanoi, Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang, and rooted in conceptual discussions regarding urban livelihood shocks, we examine how street vendors, especially rural-to-urban migrants, experienced and responded to the 'first wave' of COVID-19, including additional government-imposed constraints on their livelihoods and mobility. We find that a diverse range of responses helped some-but not all-vendors overcome the initial shocks to their livelihoods and household responsibilities. Yet, we also note that the pandemic's onset altered urban-rural connections and mobility, with many vendors who turned to formerly dependable rural-urban ties for support facing unexpected barriers.

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