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Contribution to Book
Weaving Life Across Borders: The Cham Muslim Migrants Traversing Vietnam and Malaysia
International Migration in Southeast Asia
(2016)
Abstract
Focusing on the understudied Cham (Sunni) Muslims who live in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam , decades after Vietnam joined the market system, I found that they have sustained their century-old mobile ways of life—including retailing, fishing, and sewing—in close connection with the global Islamic community to make a living and to continue their religious studies. But a mixed picture emerges in their response to Vietnam’s labor export policy since 2002: practicing geographical agency with short-term successes but facing more risks as both men and women engage in extra local journeys, crossing borders into Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
Keywords
- Vietnam,
- Cham Muslims,
- Mekong delta,
- Labor export,
- Malaysia,
- Migration,
- Migrant labour
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Editor
Kwen Fee Lian, Md Mizanur Rahman, Yabit bin Alas
Publisher
Springer
Series
Asia in Transition
ISBN
9789812877123
DOI
10.1007/978-981-287-712-3_2
Citation Information
Tran A.N. (2016) Weaving Life Across Borders: The Cham Muslim Migrants Traversing Vietnam and Malaysia. In: Lian K., Rahman M., Alas Y. (eds) International Migration in Southeast Asia. Asia in Transition, vol 2. Springer, Singapore