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For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia (2018)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S., & Parsons, L. (2018). For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia. Geoforum, 92, 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.020

This paper uses the context of Cambodia’s 2013/14 and 2015 minimum wage campaigns to demonstrate the translocally rural-urban nature of worker agency and activism within global production networks. In doing so, it first highlights the gendered and hi... Read More about For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia.

After the exodus: Exploring migrant attitudes to documentation, brokerage and employment following the 2014 mass withdrawal of Cambodian workers from Thailand: Exodus (2017)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S., & Parsons, L. (2017). After the exodus: Exploring migrant attitudes to documentation, brokerage and employment following the 2014 mass withdrawal of Cambodian workers from Thailand: Exodus. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 38(3), 350-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12199

This paper uses the exodus of Cambodian migrant workers from Thailand in June 2014 as a focal point around which to explore Cambodian migrant attitudes towards the systems of documentation and brokerage that influence their movement. From the perspec... Read More about After the exodus: Exploring migrant attitudes to documentation, brokerage and employment following the 2014 mass withdrawal of Cambodian workers from Thailand: Exodus.

The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system (2016)
Book Chapter
Lawreniuk, S. (2016). The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system. In K. Brickell, & S. Springer (Eds.), The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia. Routledge

The “miracle” (World Bank 2009) of Cambodia’s recent development has been driven by the movement of labor. Beginning in the 1990s, when the first garment factories opened their doors, a trickle of migrant workers to Phnom Penh’s nascent export indust... Read More about The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system.

A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders (2016)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2017). A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders. Mobilities, 12(5), 646-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2016.1176775

This paper uses the concept of viscosity to highlight how structural impediments to movement affect not only populations and individuals characterised by low (or no) mobility but also highly mobile groups. Using the ‘cyclo’ riding paratransit workers... Read More about A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders.

The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh (2015)
Journal Article
Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2016). The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh. Journal of Development Studies, 52(1), 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1056787

This paper concerns the nature of structured begging migration in Phnom Penh, as well as its impact and meaning in sender communities. It interrogates a popular myth known throughout Cambodia concerning the supernatural motivation of ‘rich’ beggars,... Read More about The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh.