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114667
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2012.
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The ethnic minorities of Southeast Asia's uplands, including those of
Vietnam, tend to be portrayed as excluded from national society and locked into
poverty, environmental degradation and positions of subjugation. Recent debates
about Southeast Asian uplands-lowlands relations have questioned this discourse by
highlighting the diversity of experiences, the agency of ethnic minority groups, and
uplanders' strategies of state evasion. This article finds that the integration of the
uplands into the Vietnamese polity should be understood as an ongoing struggle
between nation-building and state expansion characterised by grand visions on the
one hand, and incomplete policy implementation and uplanders' ambiguous stance
towards integration on the other.
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095585
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2010.
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This article analyses the processes of transformation and differentiation since the 1950s in a Vietnamese rural village, hereafter called Chieng Hoa.1 It examines how radical changes in political discourse and economic policies at the national level have affected the welfare and social relations of villagers and how the latter have in turn coped, resisted, as well as shaped such structural changes. Using concrete life stories of local people, the article identifies the winners and losers in this transformation process, the trajectories households or individuals have taken to arrive at their current positions, and the strategies that they are adopting for the future. It demonstrates that differentiation in Chieng Hoa implies changes in social relations, including but not limited to relations of production, and that even within this single locality, differentiation can take various forms and processes over time, whether specific to or cutting across changes in macro-policies. The article also reveals that in the often perceived equal collectivisation, inequalities still existed and became causes of differentiation in the subsequent decollectivisation period. However, while conditions for a permanent differentiation were present, such process has failed to materialise in the current integration period. Differentiation has become more unpredictable as past winners can lose out due to unstable market conditions.
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