Effects of Overseas Remittances on Small Vietnamese Rice Farming Households

本项目研究远亲汇款对越南家庭和社区结构的影响。从家庭等级和社区政治权力关系的角度对受援户和非受援户进行了比较。此外，研究结果还与另一个历史背景不同的国家菲律宾进行了比较。将进行三种分析。第一阶段是分析有关收入、教育和农业变化的现有数据，以检验有关汇款影响的一些想法。第二是对这些数据进行因素分析，以揭示涉及汇款、家庭经济模式、人口因素和地方经济的模式。第三组分析将来自在受助家庭和非受助家庭中进行的半结构化访谈，以探索收入对日常生活模式（如家庭内的权力关系）的影响。这项研究建立在PI关于汇款的其他工作的基础上，并将探索现有的和新的模式。这是第一次在越南进行这样的研究，在这个国家，传统农业正在迅速现代化，也正在被工业生产所取代。与菲律宾的比较将允许控制其他因素，否则这些因素可能会从单个国家的虚假相关性中得出结论。本研究的价值在于提高对农村变迁与经济发展的理论认识。

This project studies effects of remittances by distant faily members on household and community structures in Vietnam. Recipient and non-recipient households are compared in terms of family hierarchies and community political power relations. In addition, results are compared to a second country, the Philippines, with a different historical background. Three kinds of analyses will be conducted. The first stage is to analyze existing data on income, education, and changes in agriculture to test some ideas on effects of remittances. The second is factor analysis of those data to uncover patterns involving remittances, household economic patterns, demographic factors, and the local economies. The third set of analyses will come from semi-structured interviews conducted in recipient and non-recipient households, to explore effects of the income on daily life patterns such as power relations within the family. This research builds on other work by the PI's on remittances, and will explore both established and novel patterns. It is the first such study conducted within Vietnam, a country in which traditional agriculture is rapidly modernizing and also being supplanted by industrial production. Comparisons with the Philippines will permit controlling for other factors that otherwise might lead to conclusions from spurious correlations within a single country. The value of this work is to improve theoretical understanding of rural change and economic development.