MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT: THE PROCESS OF POST-RESETTLEMENT IN HO CHI MINH CITY AND SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES

In recent years, urbanization has been taking place rapidly and vigorously in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest urban agglomeration in Vietnam. Because of the creation of a multitude of new urban zone development, the resettling of people has become common. Within 10 years, resettlement projects has released tens of thousands slums, cleaned polluted waterways, improved many old infrastructure systems. This paper aims to clarify the impacts of the resettlement on the live hood and social relationships of the relocatees, to analyze how they have coped with new situations and the role of social policy in supporting for relocatees.
The paper make use of both published secondary sources and primary survey. The effective sample size of the survey is 300 households which were selected from resettlement projects. The data were collected through face-to-face interview and semi-structured questions.
Findings show that the resettlement does not just stop at making a segment in-place to another place but also links to a serious of social policy for supporting relocated households. There are certain "immaterial and invisible” changes affected to the life of resettled households.