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Article

27 Jan 2021

Auteur:
Brian Badzmierowski, Khmer Times

Cambodia: Migrant workers claim debt as prime reason for migration to work overseas; CENTRAL call for provision of land & skills training

"Debt main reason for Cambodians seeking jobs in Thailand", 27 January 2021

Unmanageable debts are one of the main reasons why many Cambodians have felt forced to leave their homes and look for jobs across the Thai border.

This was revealed in a yet to be released survey conducted by the Centre for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (Central) done on 472 migrant workers who returned from Thailand ...

The other reasons cited were, among others, unemployment and being very poor.

... Central estimates that there are two million migrant workers in Thailand, by far home to the largest amount of Cambodian migrant workers. The second-largest concentration of migrant workers is in Malaysia, where there are an estimated 110,000 migrant workers, according to Central...

Dy Thehoya, senior officer of Central’s Migration Programme, said hundreds of thousands of migrant workers’ documents expire ... this year ...

According to a Central presentation provided ..., the NGO found that COVID-19 had affected Cambodian migrant workers in a number of ways in Thailand, namely some were fired without compensation, some had their income and hours decreased, while others lost work when their factories closed.

Others have not been able to apply for legal documents while trafficking and labour exploitation had increased, according to Central.

... In response to the findings, Central issued several recommendations to the government which included providing land to farm as well as skills training.

The NGO also suggested guaranteeing prices for goods produced by farmers and standardising the recruitment process for migrant workers...