Law and Precarity

Legal Consciousness and Daily Survival in Vietnam

Tu Phuong Nguyen (University of Adelaide)

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Cambridge University Press
30 June 2025

Poverty & unemployment; Black & Asian studies; Political economy; Law & society; Employment & labour law

Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Why do some people invoke the law (or resist it) as a way to solve their problems and achieve more stability in life, only to end up in another challenging and uncertain situation? This book offers an original understanding of the important, but understudied, paradoxical effects of law on the survival strategies of Vietnamese people who are caught to live and work in precarious circumstances. It demonstrates how precarity influences the way people perceive, engage with, or resist the law; yet law, at the same time, creates and reinforces such a condition. Understanding the mutually reinforcing relationship between law and precarity sheds a new light on the way law enables individuals to better their condition but ultimately makes matters worse rather than better. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of law and society, political economy, anthropology, and Asian studies.

By: Tu Phuong Nguyen (University of Adelaide)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009180498
ISBN 10: 1009180495
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Pages: 181
Publication Date: 30 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Tu Phuong Nguyen researches labor law, law and society, political economy, state and society relations, and gender in Vietnam. She is the author of Workplace Justice: Rights and Labour Resistance in Vietnam (2019). She is a member of Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA).