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Given the diversity of children’s migration experiences, even within Viet Nam, and the frequency with which they migrate, a wider lens is required in order to better understand – and design policy and programming to address – the patterning of care and protection vulnerabilities that face children situated at the nexus of economic disadvantage and migration.

This study is part of a two-year Oak Foundation-funded programme of work that explores the potential for greater linkages between child protection and anti-poverty work in low- and middle-income countries. It is informed by a systematic review of the literature on four key dimensions of child protection – sexual violence and exploitation, physical violence, early marriage and inadequate care – and their linkages to poverty. The report is concerned primarily with inadequate care for children and focuses on the impacts of migration on children in Da Phuoc and Vinh Nguon communes, which are located on the Cambodian border in An Giang province in southern Viet Nam.