Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China
Abstract This article investigates the interplay between knowledge acquisition and the stepwise migration trajectories of low-skilled Vietnamese workers in China. Utilizing a rich array of data garnered from face-to-face interviews, customized surveys, on-site observations, media narratives, and an...
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| description | Abstract This article investigates the interplay between knowledge acquisition and the stepwise migration trajectories of low-skilled Vietnamese workers in China. Utilizing a rich array of data garnered from face-to-face interviews, customized surveys, on-site observations, media narratives, and an archival review of government regulations in Guangxi—a province bordering Vietnam—and in Guangdong, a non-adjacent province, this study proposes an analytical framework, skill-driven migration, to highlight the synergy between the pre-migratory socio-demographic attributes of migrants and the circumstances prevailing in both the places of origin and destination which orchestrates distinct job allocations and skill augmentation avenues. Notably, our study underscores that the competencies acquired in manufacturing employments potentially broaden the horizon of destinations for migrants in their subsequent stepwise migration endeavors. This phenomenon, in turn, poses intricate immigration management quandaries for newly emerged destination nations like China, spotlighting a nuanced dimension of labor mobility and policy frameworks in the evolving regional economic integration. Last, our findings challenge the conventional dichotomy of high-skilled and low-skilled categories of labor migration, as well as the dichotomy of explicit-tacit knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d55db6ea75ed48d98c0d03e33239fd572024-04-07T11:11:47ZengSpringerOpenComparative Migration Studies2214-594X2024-04-0112111810.1186/s40878-024-00381-4Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South ChinaKejie Huang0Tianlong You1Guangzhou Academy of Social SciencesSchool of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan UniversityAbstract This article investigates the interplay between knowledge acquisition and the stepwise migration trajectories of low-skilled Vietnamese workers in China. Utilizing a rich array of data garnered from face-to-face interviews, customized surveys, on-site observations, media narratives, and an archival review of government regulations in Guangxi—a province bordering Vietnam—and in Guangdong, a non-adjacent province, this study proposes an analytical framework, skill-driven migration, to highlight the synergy between the pre-migratory socio-demographic attributes of migrants and the circumstances prevailing in both the places of origin and destination which orchestrates distinct job allocations and skill augmentation avenues. Notably, our study underscores that the competencies acquired in manufacturing employments potentially broaden the horizon of destinations for migrants in their subsequent stepwise migration endeavors. This phenomenon, in turn, poses intricate immigration management quandaries for newly emerged destination nations like China, spotlighting a nuanced dimension of labor mobility and policy frameworks in the evolving regional economic integration. Last, our findings challenge the conventional dichotomy of high-skilled and low-skilled categories of labor migration, as well as the dichotomy of explicit-tacit knowledge.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00381-4Knowledge acquisitionLabor migrationStepwise migrationVietnamese migrantChina |
| spellingShingle | Kejie Huang Tianlong You Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China Comparative Migration Studies Knowledge acquisition Labor migration Stepwise migration Vietnamese migrant China |
| title | Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China |
| title_full | Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China |
| title_fullStr | Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China |
| title_short | Skill the low-skilled: the knowledge-driven stepwise migration of Vietnamese workers in South China |
| title_sort | skill the low skilled the knowledge driven stepwise migration of vietnamese workers in south china |
| topic | Knowledge acquisition Labor migration Stepwise migration Vietnamese migrant China |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00381-4 |
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