Some socio-cultural issues in the construction of rural areas in the Mekong delta from the point of rural women getting married to foreigners

Abstract

The phenomenon of rural women in the Southwest area getting married to foreigners in recent decades is not only a matter of transnational marriage, but also an urgent signal of instability for some socio-cultural issues in the Southwest area. Basing on the real situation experienced by rural women in the Southwest area, the paper analyses the characteristics and causes of this phenomenon; thereby, looking deep into potential risks in socio-cultural life of the rural Southwest, which affect the conservation of national cultural identity and the ensuring of human resources for the construction of a new rural area in this place.