Gender pattern of migration in decisionmaking process

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Gender pattern of migration in decision-making
process

• Vu, Kieu-Dung, PhD
• Population Council, Hanoi, Vietnam
• dungvumsu_at_yahoo.com

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Theoretical framework

• Migration Theories
• Human Capital
• Social Capital
• Financial Capital

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Gender model of urbanward migration in Vietnam

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  Socio- economic context
• Human capital
• Demographic Migration
• attributes Financial capital process
• Social capital
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Reason to migrate

• men move for economic reasons more than women
  while women move for family reasons more than men
• single women and men (both single and married)
  migrate for economic reasons while married women
  migrate for family reasons
• reasons for migration were affected by
  demographic attributes and human and social
  capital, but not financial capital. human and
  social capital are good predictors of reasons for
  migration. Financial capital was not a good
  predictor of reasons for migration, and this
  might be explained by the migrants relatively
  high income levels

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Making decision to move (1)

• Men are self-determined movers while women are
  directed to migrate by family members
• Single women and men are directed to migrate by
  family members while married men are
  self-determined movers and married women join
  with their husbands in making the decision to
  migrate

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Making decision to move (2)

• both women and men with higher educational levels
  are self-determined movers while those with lower
  educational levels are directed to move by family
  members
• decision-makers of migration were affected by
  almost all capital (human, social, and financial)
  and demographic attributes, but especially social
  capital
• social capital and human capital including gender
  and marital status are good predictors for the
  participation in decision making

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Type of migration

• men move alone while women move with others
• men and single women move solitarily while
  married women move with others
• both men and women with social connections move
  alone
• men, regardless of type of relations at
  destination, move alone while women with kin
  relations move alone and those with non-kin
  relations move with others

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Distance of move (1)

• men move a farther distance while women move a
  shorter distance
• people with higher income/educational levels move
  a farther distance than those with lower
  income/edu. levels

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Distance of move (2)

• regardless of social connections, both women and
  men moved the same distance people with higher
  incomes and educational levels and those working
  in the formal sector migrated a farther distance
  than those with lower incomes and educational
  levels and those working in other sectors.
• Distance of Migration was affected by Age
  (demographic attributes), Income (financial
  capital), and Education and Occupation (human
  capital)
• the best predictor for Distance of Migration was
  Occupation (formal sector). This means that
  people who worked within the formal sector of the
  economy moved a farther distance than those
  working in other sectors. Put another way, human
  capital had an effect on distance of move.

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