Access to social services: How poor migrants experience their life in contemporary Vietnamese urban areas

Tóm tắt

Vietnam is on urbanization and industrialization process, and it is currently witnessed the significant migration flows between rural-urban and urban-urban nationwide. The large number of migrants is the poor from rural areas who go to the urban to look for any kind of jobs, temporarily and permanently. As it happened national wide, one of the critical questions appeared during the migration is that how the poor migrants experience their life in the urban life, with those social services which are more preferred and accessed by the migrants in the urban life. Basing on the social inclusion approach, from survey findings with 1042 migrants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City-Vietnam, this paper aims at identifying the life experiences of migrants in two big cities in Vietnam and suggests further research and solutions for migrant’s social inclusion through the social services accessibility.