Book Chapter

Navigating a post-colonial, capitalist and neoliberal world : a comparison of Vietnamese international students' and migrant workers' mobilities

Abstract

This chapter draws from the literature about Vietnamese international students and temporary migrant workers to compare their mobilities; as these two groups are growing subsets of the Vietnamese diaspora, whose migration is encouraged by the Vietnamese government. We address (1) their physical mobilities and the conditions of their international movements, (2) the movement of different forms of capital associated with the movement of their bodies, and (3) their social mobility resulting from their migration. We highlight the constraints but also the differential agency that each group exercises to navigate a post-colonial, capitalist and neoliberal world through their mobilities.

Authors

Delaisse, Anne-Cécile
Barber, Tamsin

Oxford Brookes departments

Department of Social Sciences

Dates

Year of publication: 2024
Date of RADAR deposit: 2023-01-17

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Related resources

This RADAR resource is the Accepted Manuscript of Navigating a postcolonial, capitalist and neoliberal world: A comparison of Vietnamese international students' and migrant workers' mobilities
This RADAR resource is Part of Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora [ISBN: 9780367463960] / edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (Routledge, 2024).