Research On New Chinese Emigrants To Cambodia Since 1980s

Economic globalization is accelerating the flows of capital, information and technology throughout the world, which drives the international migration activities to proceed on an overwhelming scale. These international migration activities have generated various influences on the migrants themselves, the emigrating countries and the immigrating countries. Chinese new emigrants are just part of the international migrants group. After the reform and opening-up in 1980s, more and more Chinese people went overseas to make a living and develop their careers. Their emigration activities have drawn much attention of the relevant experts and scholars. But the current research on Chinese emigrants mainly focuses on those who chose developed countries as their destinations. There is much less research on those who emigrated to developing countries, including the countries in Southeast Asia. This paper will make a case study on Chinese emigrants who went to Cambodia since 1980s.First, this paper describes the history of Chinese emigration activities to Cambodia, and analyzes the conditions of Chinese migrants there in different historic periods, especially the changes in their status after World War II. Chapter Two begins with analysis on the laws and regulations about foreign capitals and foreign labors in Cambodia, and then studies the emigration sources and migration types of Chinese new emigrants to Cambodia since 1980s. The emigration sources mainly include Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan Province. As for migration types, they are commercial migration (trade migration and investment migration included), labor migration and irregular migration. Moreover, this chapter also makes an elementary analysis on how the Chinese new emigrants make a living and their careers.Based on the above descriptions and analysis, Chapter Three focuses on the reasons why Chinese people chose to emigrate to Cambodia since 1980s. There are two sections, the historic background of emigration and the analysis on detailed reasons under the push-pull theory. The first section lays stress on changes in the political patterns of Cambodia, Sino-Cambodia relations and Cambodian new economic environment during this period. The second section analyzes the push-pull factors from the following aspects: Sino-Cambodia bilateral trade, Chinese investment and aids to Cambodia, Chinese contracted projects in Cambodia and labor exports to Cambodia.In the last chapter, this paper points out the main problems that Chinese new emigrants meet with at present, such as living problems, public security issues and the discrepancies between new Chinese emigrants and old ones. Then this part analyzes essential causes for these problems, and raises some recommendations and solutions, which are expected to play a positive role in the future for the living and development of new Chinese emigrants in Cambodia. Finally, this paper concludes by summarizing all the discussions and analysis. It also states some expectations for the development trends of Chinese migrants in Cambodia.