Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration Between Vietnam and Malaysia

by Angie Ngoc Tran

Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hr , Khmer, and Chăm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Trần looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085272
• ISBN13: 9780252085277
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"