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Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow's wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies -- particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political economy of sexuality, and social belonging -- deepening our knowledge of how the core social values and cultural logics that underpin Vietnamese personhood are challenged and reconstituted by the ethos of the market economy. This book sheds important light on processes of mobility and social change in post-socialist societies that continue to grapple with yawning chasms between old and new ways of life, the local and the global, policy and practice, and obsolete governance techniques and rapidly changing socio-economic realities.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Money and Moralities. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights / Alipio, Cheryll / Hoang, Lan Anh -- Part I. Money and Moral Selfhood in the Market Economy -- 2. The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore / Zhang, Juan -- 3. Mobility and Flexible Moralities. Insights from the Case Study of Vietnamese Market Traders in Moscow / Hoang, Lan Anh -- 4. 'Billions and the Retrogression of Knowledge'? Wealth, Modernity, and Ethical Citizenship in a Northern Vietnamese Trading Village / Horat, Esther -- Part II. Social Currencies and the Morality of Gender -- 5. House, Car, or Permanent Residency? Higher-Wage Chinese Migrant Men's Flexible Masculinities in Singapore / Ang, Sylvia -- 6. 'Your Vagina is a Rice Paddy'. Hegemonic Femininities and the Evolving Moralities of Sex in Chiang Mai, Thailand / DeFillipo, Cassie -- 7. The Gender and Morality of Money in the Indian Transnational Family / Singh, Supriya -- Part III. The Social Life of Money in Asian Moral Economies -- 8. Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations. 'Morality-in-Motion' among Young People in the Philippines / Alipio, Cheryll -- 9. Christianity as the Sixth Aspirational 'C'. Megachurches and the Changing Landscape of Religion, Prosperity, and Wealth in Singapore / Gomes, Catherine / Tan, Jonathan -- 10. Cash, Women, and the Nation. Tales of Morality about Lao Banknotes in Times of Rapid Change / Huijsmans, Roy -- Epilogue -- 11. Engendering Money and Morality in Asia / Alipio, Cheryll / Hoang, Lan Anh -- Index

Transnational migration entails profound changes to gender subjectivities and family structures, social networks and urban landscapes, and lifestyles and aspirations. Pandemic-induced immobilities have led many to question the assumed links between migration and mobility, and heightened interest in mobility inequalities. This research note offers critical insights into the "immobility turn" scholarship and highlights the gaps in our understanding of immobilities as both a social phenomenon and a conceptual tool. By placing our analytical focus on migrant immobilities, this research note sheds light on important changes in the meanings and values associated with migration and (im)mobility across contexts.

AbstractIn this article, we contribute to the growing and diverse literature on the lived experiences of children and their agency in the context of migration. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with children whose migrant parents have left them behind, as well as with those who care for them in Vietnam, we demonstrate that the various ways in which they affect migration decision‐making and transnational communication shape the children's imaginations of migration. The context‐specific social construction of childhood, or more specifically adult perceptions of children's agency and needs, in turn structures these processes. We emphasize the need for debates on children's agency to take into account both broader socio‐economic processes at the macro level and the concrete and local scale at which children's lives unfold. By outlining how children's experiences of parental migration are constitutive of their attitudes toward this livelihood strategy, we also argue that the ability of those 'left‐behind' to exercise agency is closely intertwined with processes of social becoming and navigation in the transnational social fields constructed for them by adults.

► We investigate care arrangements for children in Vietnamese and Indonesian migrant families. ► Surrogate carers in sending countries are the most disadvantaged in global care chains. ► Care relationships reflect prevailing power hierarchies and norms. ► The study signifies the need to account for local specificities in researching care in the South.

Migration is an increasingly significant driver of transformations in family configurations and caregiving practices as well as living arrangements. The sustainability of geographically-split family formations is dependent on several factors, including the presence and strength of care support networks among migrants and their left-behind families, access to communication infrastructure and the stability of the families' financial resources. Drawing on both a selective review of relevant academic literature as well as key findings from the CHAMPSEA Project, the article first examines the effects of these three factors on the well-being of migrants' left-behind family members, especially children. The article also considers major implications of the project's findings, as well as possible challenges for migration and development policies. One area of concern for migration and development policy arising from our research findings is the need to provide better support for left-behind caregivers or carers who are substituting for the absent migrant in childcare and domestic work but who may also need care and support themselves. Another area relates to the need to improve communication infrastructure to help migrants and their families maintain their relationships across transnational spaces; while a third lies with the importance of minimizing migrant families' economic stress stemming from the cycle of debts resulting from exorbitant broker fees and the mismanagement of remittances. By acknowledging both the social and economic costs of international labor migration on families, governments of labor-sending countries can create a more effective legal and institutional framework as well as design suitable supporting mechanisms for left-behind families. There is then a stronger possibility that migration can become a sustainable development strategy for transnational families in South-East Asia.

Migration is an increasingly significant driver of transformations in family configurations and caregiving practices as well as living arrangements. The sustainability of geographically-split family formations is dependent on several factors, including the presence and strength of care support networks among migrants and their left-behind families, access to communication infrastructure and the stability of the families' financial resources. Drawing on both a selective review of relevant academic literature as well as key findings from the CHAMPSEA Project, the article first examines the effects of these three factors on the well-being of migrants' left-behind family members, especially children. The article also considers major implications of the project's findings, as well as possible challenges for migration and development policies. One area of concern for migration and development policy arising from our research findings is the need to provide better support for left-behind caregivers or carers who are substituting for the absent migrant in childcare and domestic work but who may also need care and support themselves. Another area relates to the need to improve communication infrastructure to help migrants and their families maintain their relationships across transnational spaces; while a third lies with the importance of minimizing migrant families' economic stress stemming from the cycle of debts resulting from exorbitant broker fees and the mismanagement of remittances. By acknowledging both the social and economic costs of international labor migration on families, governments of labor-sending countries can create a more effective legal and institutional framework as well as design suitable supporting mechanisms for left-behind families. There is then a stronger possibility that migration can become a sustainable development strategy for transnational families in South-East Asia.