Weaving Life Across Borders: The Cham Muslim Migrants Traversing Vietnam and Malaysia

Angie Ngọc Trần

doi:10.1007/978-981-287-712-3_2

Weaving Life Across Borders: The Cham Muslim Migrants Traversing Vietnam and Malaysia

Angie Ngọc Trần

Department of Social Sciences and Global Studies

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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.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	International Migration in Southeast Asia
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-712-3_2
State	Published - 2016

Keywords

Cham Muslims
Labor export
Malaysia
Mekong delta
Migrant labour
Migration
Vietnam

Disciplines

Labor and Employment Law
Political Economy
Asian Studies

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