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The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system

Lawreniuk, Sabina

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Katherine Brickell
Editor

Simon Springer
Editor

Abstract

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 industry would soon become a flood, amounting to what is presently more than 300,000 workers employed in the garment sector alone (CCHR 2015). Taking account of the construction industry and the various other migrant employers, almost a million of Cambodia’s population of fifteen million people are now urban migrant workers (NIS 2010).

Citation

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

Online Publication Date Sep 13, 2016
Publication Date Sep 20, 2016
Deposit Date Sep 15, 2020
Publisher Routledge
Book Title The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia
Chapter Number 17
ISBN 9781315736709
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4778412
Publisher URL https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315736709/chapters/10.4324/9781315736709-29
Related Public URLs https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315736709