Young rural women's migration into Vientiane City | |
| Author | Khampho Sanatem |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.GD-06-10 |
| Subject(s) | Migrant labor--Laos--Vientiane Women employees--Laos--Vientiane Rural-urban migration--Laos--Vientiane |
| Note | A thesis submitted in the partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. GD-06-10 |
| Abstract | The rural young women migrated into big city is a common in Lao PDR. In Vientiane city where is more jobs available for women who have low education. Other reason Vientiane is the best place for investors have more facilities of infrastructure (electricity, road, water supply and others) to do business. Since the government has adopted the new policy and reformed the public sector to private sector that enhance the young women were participatory in labor market. Young migrants came from the different village to find the job by hopping to improve of their livelihood and their living conditions from their income contribution. Some young rural migrants' women who come from the same village (Phamuang village in Khamkeurt district in Bolikhamxay province) and worked at difference garment factories in Vientiane. They have different factors and different conditions to push them to migrant into Vientiane. In term of gender dimensions, migrants were faced different from their home town such as long working hours and bad living condition. They worked hard in order to earn some saving to supplement family daily basic needs. Their remittance contributed considering as a part of their family income, which response of migrants' purpose in order to improve their family livelihood and leaded them to change their lifestyle on mobility and culture. Garment factories in Vientiane are the places didn't require employee who have high education that is the reason for rural women have opportunity to get a job. They have to work harder than they work in rice field, but at least they could get regular income from their labor for supported their personal well being as well as their family economic to be better. In term of their parents' families, if we compare before and during their daughter left home, its were not much changing the division of labor within household in reproductive as well as productive, it seems to be more burden of works for mother and their sibling in case of labor absent. Migrants themselves the regular visiting and remittance sending were remained in connecting with their origin places. However, the remittance sending was different category for helping on agriculture activities and still maintained some traditions as morality and obligates of daughter to take care of their parents. The power relations within household, if father or mother pass away or they separate the daughters became bread winner. The new thing for migrants who were working in Vientiane they can make decision of their couples. This research is based on primary and secondary data collection from the survey, semi structure interview, group discussion with migrant workers in four dormitories of garment factory in Vientiane and as well as take group discussion with their parents of migration daughter in Phamuang village. |
| Year | 2006 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. GD-06-10 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Gender and Development Studies (GD) |
| Chairperson(s) | Resurreccion, Bernadette P.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Kusakabe, Kyoko;Sajor, Edsel ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT Fellowship;Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2006 |