TRIANGLE II Quarterly Briefing Note: Viet Nam (January - March 2016)

Since the inception of the doi moi economic reforms in the 1980s, Viet Nam’s national socio-economic development plans have included labour migration as a mechanism to increase employment and reduce poverty. There are approximately 520,000 Vietnamese migrants currently working overseas, most of whom are young men and women from rural areas who obtain low-skilled employment in manufacturing, construction, fishing, agriculture, domestic work and other service industries.