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| Poipet (Banteay Meanchey). 17/06/2014: Migrant worker having crossed the border the previous day and having missed transportation to their home province spent the night in a shelter provided by the authorities. In a massive movement of fear, some 180.000 cambodian migrant workers, many of them illegal, return home in one week time after the military coup in Thailand which vowed to normalise the situation of illegal immigration. |
Migrant Exodus…
John Vink | 17 June 2014
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Over the past week, and following the military coup in Thailand,
nearly 200,000 Cambodian migrant workers have come back to their home
country. It seems a series of crackdowns by the Thai immigration on
illegal immigrants, combined with as of yet unfounded rumors of
Cambodians having been killed by the Thai authorities, has triggered a
feeling of insecurity among the Cambodian community in Thailand,
sufficient to make them head back to their village. All of them…
For many it is back to square one: having left because migrating to
Thailand is the only solution to provide some revenue to the family, the
returnees now find themselves facing the same issue of unemployment in a
country which should seriously question its ability to provide jobs for
its citizens.
The Cambodian authorities and a coupe of NGO’s (the U.N.’s I.O.M.,
Samaritan’s Purse) have spared no effort to alleviate the immediate
pressure on the border town of Poipet by that many returnees going home
in such a short period of time, providing medical assistance, army
trucks to bring back the migrants to their home provinces, and
distributing food upon their arrival.
The crisis at the border was rather well managed. The government now will have to address the core of the problem: unemployment.
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| Poipet (Banteay Meanchey). 17/06/2014: Cambodian migrants being sent back to their home country in a truck from the Thai immigration authorities. |
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| Poipet (Banteay Meanchey). 17/06/2014: Soldiers helping Cambodian migrant workers disembark from a truck provided by the Thai authorities to bring them back to their home country. |
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