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

Lawreniuk, Sabina

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
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