Basic Social Services for Ethnic Minority Groups in Urban of Vietnam: Current Situation and Solutions

Tran Van Kham; Nguyen Van Chieu

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Basic Social Services for Ethnic Minority Groups in Urban of Vietnam: Current Situation and Solutions

Tran Van Kham, Nguyen Van Chieu

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Abstract

At the moment, there is about 13 million of ethnic minorities living in the urban areas of Vietnam, facing difficulties on their daily life. In order to improve the life quality, the narrow the gap between the minorities and majority in Vietnam, this paper aims at identifying the welfare accessibilities by minorities in the urban life in terms of housing, health care services, employment services and public services as well; and proposing the solutions for improving such conditions to have better life of minorities in the urban. Based on the sustainable livelihood framework as the theoretical approach, and the survey with 600 ethnic minorities, at the age of 18 and above, in three provinces of Vietnam, it is found that the ethnic minorities are facing difficulties on accessing the basic social services due to many limitations, from such this paper also suggests the considerations improving the life conditions for ethnic minorities in Vietnam in the urban life from perspective of social welfare and sustainable development.

Published in	Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20160406.17
Page(s)	173-180
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Social Services, Vietnam, Minorities, Access, Urban Life

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Nguyen Van Chieu

Center for Quality Assurance, VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam

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