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Conditions under Which Rural-to-Urban Migration Enhances Social and Economic Sustainability of Home Communities: A Case Study in Vietnam

Sustainability, 2021-08, Vol.13 (15), p.8326 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Conditions under Which Rural-to-Urban Migration Enhances Social and Economic Sustainability of Home Communities: A Case Study in Vietnam
  • Author: Le, Thi Huyen ; Nakagawa, Yoshinori ; Kobayashi, Yutaka
  • Subjects: Behavior ; Economics ; Environmental impact ; Families & family life ; Foreign students ; Human capital ; Hypotheses ; Investigations ; Knowledge ; Knowledge acquisition ; Migrants ; Migration ; Polls & surveys ; Regression analysis ; Remittances ; Rural areas ; Rural development ; Rural urban migration ; Skills ; Social capital ; Sustainability ; Sustainable development ; Urban areas
  • Is Part Of: Sustainability, 2021-08, Vol.13 (15), p.8326
  • Description: Rural-to-urban migration contributes to the economic and social sustainability of sending communities. The aim of this study was to obtain quantitative evidence supporting the theoretical argument that (i) rural-to-urban migrants contribute to the sustainability of their sending communities, and (ii) once they return, they are likely to behave prosocially as return migrants because they feel a responsibility to apply the knowledge and skills they acquired during migration for the sake of others in their sending communities. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, a typical destination city of domestic rural-to-urban migrants. Three hundred rural-to-urban migrants participated in this survey. The ultivariate regression analysis results indicate that rural-to-urban migrants contribute more to the social and economic sustainability of their rural home communities when they have spent longer in their migration destinations and have accumulated skills and knowledge because their experiences foster a sense of responsibility toward their home communities. This is the first quantitative investigation of the relationship between rural-to-urban migrants’ characteristics representing their accumulation of skills and knowledge in their destination cities and their supportive attitudes toward their home communities. This investigation seemed important because it was expected to clarify the conditions under which rural-to-urban migration stimulates migrants’ sense of responsibility and thus their contributions to the social and economic sustainability of their sending communities.
  • Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2071-1050
    EISSN: 2071-1050
    DOI: 10.3390/su13158326
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
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