This thesis examines relationships between home, work and migration for Vietnamese people in East London. It contributes to a growing body of work within geographies of home, as well as furthering research on mobility and the city in super-diverse contexts. The study draws upon semi-structured interviews with participants who have migrated from Vietnam to East London under diverse circumstances, including individuals who arrived as refugees after the Vietnam War and other people who have migrated for work or education in recent years. The research has also involved visual methods and ethnography in participants' homes, workplaces and other urban spaces. The study situates home as a multi-scalar, material and imaginative concept, set of practices and emotions. It also highlights the translocal connections between home, work and urban dwelling in Vietnam and East London. Drawing upon participants' personal stories, I examine their journeys of migration and experiences of arrival in East London, framing the empirical material within concepts of navigation and urban learning. Alongside a recognition of the role of the city within migrant experiences of home, I argue that participants re-shape the city through their everyday mobilities and practices of dwelling. The thesis examines connections between home and work in Vietnam, drawing upon understandings of the Vietnamese home as a site of connection to other places and between living relatives, ancestors and the spirit world. I also consider relationships between home and work in East London, exploring how work may contribute to a sense of home in the city. I highlight the significance of objects, spiritual beliefs and practices in reconfiguring home across transnational space. This thesis also addresses participants' future homes and possibilities of return to Vietnam. Individual choices of mobility and settlement are situated within geopolitical dimensions of home and migration. I draw upon concepts of precarity and the geopolitics of home to argue that immigration statuses, transient work and housing are intertwined with personal experiences of home and can present a significant barrier to belonging in the city. Through its focus on individual experiences and practices of home, work and urban life among Vietnamese people in East London, this research makes a distinctive contribution to understanding home, work, migration and the city.

This thesis examines the impact of social policies on child mortality. It argues that structural factors explain most of the variation in child mortality across countries and time. But that in Vietnam the state implemented effective social policies; leading to this country having low child mortality for its structural factors (income, income equality and women’s power). This thesis uses panel data econometrics to investigate the structural determinants of child mortality. Our model shows that national income and women’s power reduce, and income inequality increases, child mortality. These independent variables are significant at the 1% level and explain over 90% of the variation in child mortality when our dependent variable is under-five mortality from the World Development Indicators dataset. These results are robust to changes in the functional form, lag structure, dataset and measure of child mortality used in our model. Vietnam is an outlier in our model; it has low child mortality for its structural factors. We consider that Vietnam’s effective social policies may explain why it is an outlier. This thesis also undertakes a detailed case study of Vietnam’s social policies. We argue and provide considerable evidence that in Vietnam the government implemented effective family planning, child immunization and female education policies and that these reduced child mortality. Developing countries are currently committed through MDG4 to reducing under-five mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015. Our results show that developing countries are unlikely to achieve this goal because social policies have a small impact on child mortality relative to structural factors.

This submission consists of a collection of four papers. Each paper stands on its own and makes a specific contribution to knowledge. However, the four papers are also closely connected, each providing a building block for understanding how China's economic rise has affected Vietnam's industrial development. Taken together, these papers show that the conclusion reached on how China's rise affects its neighbours depends fundamentally on understanding the changing dynamics over time. So as to unravel these dynamics, this collection focuses on the motorcycle industry and covers a period of a decade. At the beginning of that decade China's economic rise seemed to be a disaster for Vietnam's industrial development. By the end the decade, it turned out to have transformed Vietnam's industrial development and production capabilities. At the heart of this intriguing dynamic is the competition between two models of industrial organisation. The first paper conceptualises the two contrasting models of industrial organisation that underlie the Japanese dominance and the Chinese catch-up in the Asian motorcycle industry. The second and third papers present the findings of the empirical research on Vietnam's motorcycle industry covering a period of a decade. The second paper shows that China's economic rise brought about repeated rounds of competition between the Japanese and Chinese models of industrial organisation attempting to gain supremacy in the third country market of Vietnam. The third paper shows that local component suppliers were able to build up considerable production capabilities in the course of the decade as the changes in industrial organisation created new learning opportunities for these suppliers. Drawing together the findings of the research, the fourth paper argues that the impact of China's economic rise on the development of Vietnam's motorcycle industry changed over a decade and that the changing impact can be explained in terms of successive changes in industrial organisation.

by Poon Ka-Yee. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-38). / EXECUTIVE SUMMARY --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.v / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- OBJECTIVE --- p.2 / Chapter III. --- MODEL --- p.4 / Chapter IV. --- ANALYSIS --- p.6 / Government --- p.6 / Rent --- p.7 / Tax --- p.7 / Form of Business --- p.9 / Demand Condition --- p.10 / Factor Condition --- p.11 / Related and Supporting Industries --- p.13 / Material Suppliers --- p.13 / Banking --- p.14 / Stock Market --- p.16 / Accounting and Auditing --- p.16 / Insurance --- p.17 / Advertising --- p.17 / Arbitration system --- p.17 / Foreign Exchange System --- p.18 / "Firm Strategy, Structure and Rivalry" --- p.19 / Chance --- p.19 / Chapter V. --- ANALYSIS RESULT --- p.22 / Favorable Industry --- p.24 / Accounting & Auditing --- p.24 / Steel Production --- p.26 / Favorable but Restrictive Industry --- p.28 / Mobile Phone --- p.28 / Oil Refinery --- p.30 / Unfavorable but Protective Industry --- p.32 / Computer hardware and software production --- p.32 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.33 / Chapter VII. --- FURTHER RESEARCH --- p.35 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.36

How has the Vietnam War affected America's response to international conflicts? Have American Presidents been less likely to sanction a US military response to international conflicts in the post-Vietnam era? Has their ability to deploy US forces been weakened in any way by the Vietnam experience? This study seeks answers to these questions by examining how American Presidents responded to some of the major international conflicts of the post-Vietnam era, between 1982 and 1995. It looks at how they sought to lead America's responses to these conflicts and how far they were able to enact, and publicly 'sell', their chosen deployment decisions in the face of opposition from within the American public-political arena, especially from Congress.

The sheer size of the baby boomer cohort has prompted a great deal of research on life outcomes and potential social strain or benefit of such a large cohort. A major contingency for the baby boomers was the experience of the Vietnam War. Many young men had their life course trajectories interrupted when they were drafted to military service or enrolled in college in an effort to evade the draft. This study uses the Life Family Legacies data to investigate how the Vietnam War may have affected later-life health outcomes of this cohort. Comparing physical health as captured by activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), this study found that baby boomer veterans' outcomes are similar to those of their nonveteran peers. When comparing mental health outcomes by prevalence of PTSD, findings show that those veterans who served in combat or combat support units are much more likely to show persistent signs of PTSD. Findings from this study suggest that the effects of combat are a crucial distinction when comparing outcomes between veterans and nonveterans.

Through the vantage point of institutions of higher learning, Utah's distinction as a politically conservative state dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is examined during the Vietnam War era. The three universities in the study-Brigham Young University, University of Utah, and Utah State University- are the three oldest and most populous universities in the state. This thesis concentrates on these three institutions and less on the politics of the state at the time. Studies showed that the universities, to varying degrees, exhibited antiwar sentiment Still, the campuses were less active in opposing the war, drawing only a very small percentage of students to demonstrations. Brigham Young University's President, Ernest L. Wilkinson (1951-1971), vigorously guarded against signs of antiwar activity. He was involved in the 1966 spy ring, which organized students for surveillance of supposedly liberal faculty. Students who appeared to be antiwar were also scrutinized. Despite the negative sanctions on such students, a minority of pupils did oppose the war and Wilkinson's tactics. The University of Utah produced the highest number of protesters, largely because of its more diverse and urban population. Many of the demonstrators at the U of U continued as activists in the Salt Lake Valley into the 1990s. Utah State University echoed the U of U, but to a lesser extent. Still, underground newspapers and an organized antiwar political party showed that USU also had a movement against the war. The administrations of the two schools figure into the text less powerfully than BYU's Wilkinson because they failed to become as involved in the debate. Oral interviews dominate this thesis. Subjects were chosen according to their involvement in particular events or movements. Student newspapers and underground newspapers were also utilized. This thesis attempted to recreate a tumultuous and turbulent time in American history. Utah's unique cultural slant showed that the Beehive State could not isolate itself from international events but also responded in its own way.

The purpose was to determine how husbands and wives who had been separated because of the war in Vietnam perceived ea ch other during separation. Martial roles were used as the vehicle to convey perception. A random sample of Jl couples was selected from among the married officers and enlisted men of Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 225 which was based at DaNang, South Vietnam. A questionnaire des igned to determine perception of spouse was sent to men in Vietnam and to their wives who resided in various parts of the United States. The major findings are summarized as follows: l. Correlation of roles ranked in order of importance before and after separation by respondents was significant at or beyond the .05 level for all roles except that of mother. This indicates that there was really very little change in the importance of roles during separation. Tne mother role was most variable. 2. Husbands were significantly more accurate than wives in duplicating the ranking of roles by spouse. 3. Both husbands and wives were significantly more accurate predicting the role ranking of the other before separation than they were in predicting how the other would rank his roles after separation. 4. Wives were more congruent than husbands in perception of the spouse in roles they ranked as being highly important for the spouse. 5. Men who had children tended to be congruent between thought patterns about their wives and the roles they ranked as important for them. They usually ranked the roles of wife and mother high and often thought of their wives in these roles. This congruency did not exist with the men who had no children. 6 . There was significantly greater marital satisfaction before separation. 7. Perception of very high marital satisfaction after separation indicates that ideolization or glossing of the absent situation and absent person occurred.

Les infections rickettsiales et la fièvre aiguë indifférenciée (FAI) sont des problèmes de santé publique importants sous les tropiques. Ce projet a été réalisé dans le but d'explorer les agents de rickettsies et autres étiologies de la FAI au Vietnam.Dans la première cohorte de 67 participants se concentrant sur les patients cliniquement suspectés de typhus des broussailles, le diagnostic de typhus des broussailles a été confirmé pour 32 patients (47,8%) par qPCR ou IFA. Parmi les 20 patients pour lesquels des escarres et du sang total ont été obtenus, 17 (85%) des échantillons d'escarre et 5 (25%) des échantillons de sang total étaient positifs pour O. tsutsugamushi par qPCR. L'analyse génétique des séquences du gène TSA 56-kDa a démontré que les 14 séquences étaient apparentées à 4 génotypes: Karp, Kawasaki, Gilliam (JG-v et TG-v) et TA716. Ensuite, une analyse prospective des étiologies de la FAI au Vietnam a été réalisée avec 378 patients adultes fébriles (FAIs) et 384 patients adultes fébriles (Contrôles). L'étiologie la plus courante était le virus de la grippe (20,9% dans les FAIs versus 0% dans les Contrôles), suivi des rickettsies (11,11% vs 0,26%), virus de la dengue (7,67% vs 0,52%), Leptospira (4,76% vs 0,78%), adénovirus (4,76% vs 1,04%) et entérovirus (2,12% vs 0%) (p<0,05).Par conséquent, de telles données sur les rickettsies et autres étiologies obtenues au Vietnam pourraient être très utiles pour l’établissement d’une méthode d’approche pour les patients atteints de FAI dans les aspects de diagnostic, de gestion et de prévention au Vietnam et dans les régions tropicales dans l'avenir. / Rickettsial infections and acute undifferentiated fever (AUF) are the important public health issues in the tropics. This project was performed with the aim to explore the rickettsial agents and other etiologies of AUF in Vietnam. In the first 67-participant cohort of patients who were clinically suspected of having scrub typhus, 32 (47.8%) patients were confirmed as scrub typhus by either qPCR or IFA. Among the 20 patients for whom both eschar and whole blood were obtained, 17 (85%) of the eschar specimens and 5 (25%) of the whole blood specimens tested positive for O. tsutsugamushi by qPCR. Genetic analysis of the 56-kDa TSA gene sequences demonstrated that the 14 sequences were related to 4 groups: Karp, Kawasaki, Gilliam (JG-v and TG-v) and TA716.Subsequently, a prospective case-control analysis of the etiologies of AUF in Vietnam was performed. A total of 378 febrile adult patients (AUFs) and 384 afebrile adult patients (Controls) were enrolled. The most common etiology was influenza virus (20.9% in AUFs versus 0% in Controls), followed by rickettsial agents (11.11% in AUFs versus 0.26% in Controls), dengue virus (7.67% vs 0.52%), Leptospira (4.76% vs 0.78%), adenovirus (4.76% vs 1.04%), and enterovirus (2.12% vs 0%) (p<0.05). Consequently, such data of rickettsial agents and other etiologies in Vietnam obtained from this project are extremely useful in guiding the diagnosis, management and preventive-health methods for patients with AUF in the future in Vietnam as well as in the tropics worldwide.

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