| 英文摘要 |
Since 1986, the reform and opening-up policy began to be implemented in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government has listed the border development policy as an important project in order to maintain national sovereignty and the consistency of the market economic model. Implementing this policy brought ethnic minorities, who have been living at the border, into the global free-market economy, and provided them with more choices and livelihood changes. Currently, cross-border seasonal work is the primary way of livelihood. This article focused on how the Hmong people in Meo Vac district, Ha Giang province, the border area between Vietnam–China, formed a way of making a living by cross-border migrant labor, and figured out the causes. Through observation and in-depth interviews with semi-structured questionnaires, this study found the following resultes: Firstly, the cross-border migration of the Hmong people is primarily pushed by the combination of unfavorable natural and poor living conditions in their native areas, along with limited benefits from government policies. Secondly, China's relatively high level of economic development and the long history of mutual exchange habits between both sides have created pull factors. Thirdly, the combination of geographical conditions, historical factors, economic models, and their own family and social structure has uniquely shaped the Hmong people's cross-border working methods, labor practices, work content, timing, and intermediary channels. Nowadays, cross-border migrant labor became a part of the Hmong’s participation in commodification and globalization on the Vietnam-China border while it is strongly supporting the original closed subsistence agriculture soceity. |