‘The Red Seedlings of the Central Highlands’: Social Relatedness and Political Integration of Select Ethnic Minority Groups in Post-War Vietnam

Nguyen, Huong

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“…In contrast, highland customary law remained predominantly uncodified, highly fluid and nonhierarchical. 89 Its main purpose was to harmonize the temporal and spirit worlds as well as promote restorative justice. 90 Customary law proscribed rituals and propitiations that appeased the forest spirits that highlanders 85 See SALEMINK, supra note 1, at 79-87.…”

Section: B French Colonial Regulation Of Highland Communitiesmentioning

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Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Gillespie

Tran

2022

The American Journal of Comparative Law

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For centuries, diverse groups of people living in the highlands of Southeast Asia have resisted lowland empires in China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The interaction between lowlanders and highlanders has been described as “internal colonization”—a process involving the absorption or displacement of highland communities and customary law. This Article draws on an empirical study to explore whether the Vietnamese Government’s new “village covenant” (Hương ước) program is continuing internal colonization by transforming and displacing customary law in the Vietnamese Central Highlands. It uses a novel analytical framework—synthetized from legal pluralism and systems theory—to argue the state legal system and highland communities lack a shared conceptual grammar in which to identify common ground, reconcile differences, and converge. The Article closes with the conclusion that, although highland communities are resisting internal colonization, the forces of modernity are slowly changing the deeply held epistemic assumptions underlying customary law.

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Section: B French Colonial Regulation Of Highland Communitiesmentioning

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Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Gillespie

Tran

2022

The American Journal of Comparative Law

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“…During this period, ‘New Economic Zones’ to which Kinh lowlanders were encouraged to migrate were designed, and many minority highlanders lost their lands due to the forced destruction of their traditional settlement. This has led to growing unrest, conflicts, and tensions between Kinh and local minority people (Choi, 2014; McElwee, 2008a, 2008b; Nguyen, 2016b). The government and its interventions are hence the powers-that-be, which have strongly perpetuated the discourse of ‘backward’ minorities and ‘progressive’ Kinh among the settlers and the locals.…”

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“…Kinh people are seen in the higher level of economic, cultural, and social development compared with minorities. Public discourses about backwardness, primitivity, conservation, deficiency, or superstition still pertain to minority groups in the region (see Hoang and Pham, 2012; Nguyen, 2016b; Nguyen, 2019b). As minorities are considered ‘behind’ the Kinh, they are expected to learn to ‘catch up’ with the Kinh’s ‘civilized’ life (World Bank, 2009) and integrate into the mainstream society.…”

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“…As minorities are considered ‘behind’ the Kinh, they are expected to learn to ‘catch up’ with the Kinh’s ‘civilized’ life (World Bank, 2009) and integrate into the mainstream society. Not surprisingly, many minority people tend to judge themselves by Kinh standards and be aware of their ‘inferior’ position and backwardness (see Nguyen, 2016b; Pham et al, 2015; World Bank, 2019). The praxis of such ethnic stereotyping has entailed adverse consequences for minority people.…”

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Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Minority Students’ Perspectives

Nguyen

2021

Sociological Research Online

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This study examines ethnic stereotypes toward majority and minority people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It contributes a more multidimensional perspective on ethnic stereotypes by exploring minority students’ perspectives on how their ethnic group stereotypes Kinh majority people and how they are being stereotyped by the Kinh. Status and solidarity are used as the theoretical lens to gain insights into different stereotype traits and the social meanings underlying the stereotypes. Interviews with eight students in a college in the Central Highlands, which were carried out in 2013, are the main data source. Findings reveal that the students highly appreciated Kinh people’s status-related traits and minority people’s solidarity-related traits. The stereotypes functioned as maintaining the social status quo – where the Kinh justified their position and advantages, while the minorities tended to accept the perceived social status hierarchies. Implications for diminishing negative stereotypes, improving minorities’ existing status, fostering trust-based cross-ethnic contact, and inspiring mutual respect among people of all ethnicities, are hence suggested.

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“…Also, although indigenous representation in Vietnam public organisations has increased, there is limited research on indigenous people in the workplace (NAFOSTED, 2018). Most previous research on indigenous issues focuses mainly on social and cultural issues (Huong, 2016;Nguyen et al, 2017;Van Gramberg et al, 2013), and it is argued that the political environment on their workplace experience which may contribute to the limitation of workplace-based research on indigenous people is still unexplored. In this context, this paper represents a research team's perspective focusing on the challenges of indigenous research in Vietnam from the perspective of a Vietnamese Indigenous researcher of indigenous research in Vietnam.…”

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Doing indigenous research in Vietnam public sector organisations: challenges and recommendations

Alang

2021

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PurposeThis paper provides critical insights into the contextual challenges of researching indigenous people in Vietnam's public sector organisations.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on a study of indigenous employee voice and inclusion in public sector organisations in three locations in the Central Highlands region, the researcher engages in self and methodological reflections to explain the challenges faced.FindingsThis paper identifies and discusses the challenging issues of political sensitivity, data access, availability and consistency of quantitative data, and characteristics of indigenous participants in the context of Vietnam.Practical implicationsThis paper benefits directly those who are interested in researching Vietnam's indigenous people in future. Further, it contributes to the global conversation on the challenges of conducting indigenous research, particularly in reaching out to indigenous populations and obtaining reliable data in order to capture indigenous voice and experiences.Originality/valueThere is a dearth of knowledge of indigenous research in non-Western countries where indigenous people are not recognised officially by the government. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by focusing on cultural, political and societal issues of indigenous research from Vietnam.

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‘The Red Seedlings of the Central Highlands’: Social Relatedness and Political Integration of Select Ethnic Minority Groups in Post-War Vietnam

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Minority Students’ Perspectives

Doing indigenous research in Vietnam public sector organisations: challenges and recommendations

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