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Land law and customary land
In Vietnam no one owns land: it belongs to “the entire people,” and the state manages it. What families hold are rights to use it, recorded in certificates called red books. For highland villages, whose land was held by clans and lineages, rested in fallow for years and was defined by custom rather than surveys, this system has been the legal me...
The great migration: New Economic Zones and settlers
In 1976 about 1.2 million people lived in the four provinces of the Central Highlands, half of them indigenous. By 2001 there were more than four million, and we were about a quarter. No war, epidemic or famine did that. It was done by migration: planned by the state in New Economic Zones, and then, when coffee made the highlands rich, by hundre...
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