What economic, environmental, and social factors compel Cambodians to migrate from rural villages to urban centers?
| Through traditional and distributed ethnographic methods, the research team is exploring the lived experiences of Cambodian migrants from rural villages to urban centers; the factors that drove the decision to migrate; and the changes that result from becoming urban. |
This research project seeks to understand the process of becoming urban at a critical time in Cambodian history. Combining traditional and distributed ethnographic methods, the research team will explore and analyze the lived experiences of migrants from rural villages to urban centers; the economic, environmental, and social factors that drove the decision to migrate; and the changing connections to place, space, and people that result from becoming urban. Ultimately, the project aims to produce a deeper understanding of the lived experience of migrants and a better account of their transformation from villagers to urbanites.
Urban Researcher
Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Anni Beukes is an urban researcher working at the nexus of poverty, populations, and politics. In her research and practice, Beukes draws across disciplinary methods in the social, spatial, and data sciences to generate new data and design knowledge-making processes with young people in urban...
Associate Professor, Sociology
University of Chicago
Marco Garrido's research focuses on the relationship between the urban poor and middle class in Manila as located in slums and upper- and middle-class enclaves. The project has been to connect this relationship with urban structure on the one hand and political dissensus on the other, and in so...
Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
University of Chicago
Kolata Leads ongoing interdisciplinary research projects studying human-environment interactions over the past 3000 years in the Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia, on the north coast of Peru and most recently in Thailand and Cambodia. His recent research interests include comparative work on...
Research Fellow
Centre for Natural Resources and Environment of Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI)
Monin Nong is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Natural Resources and Environment of Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). His research interests are water hygiene and sanitation, climate change adaptation, gender equality, vulnerability and adaptation assessment, climate change and...
Assistant Professor of Geography
Indiana University
Julio Postigo's research interests include the synergic effects of climate change and capitalism on rural landscapes and pastoralists; the generation of rural local knowledge for farming decision-making and weather forecasting; and rural institutions and the post-Peace Agreement in Colombia....
Senior Instructional Professor and Director of Academic Programs, CEGU
University of Chicago
Sabina Shaikh is a Senior Instructional Professor and the Director of Academic Programs for the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is the faculty director of Chicago Studies, co-leads the Environmental...
Lecturer and Researcher; Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Try Thuon received his PhD in Social Sciences from Chiang Mai University. His research interests include resource politics, water governance, urban climate resilience, informal settlements, urban heritages. His dissertation examines the politic of space making and resilience practices in...
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A new paper by members of the Becoming Urban research team reveals a "complex web" of interacting socio-environmental factors driving migration to Cambodian cities.
Using the Mekong River in Cambodia as a case study, this paper discusses how to understand rivers as food environments, how rivers underpin food security, and their unique features and threats.
A new paper published in the journal World Development considers "the interrelated impacts of credit access, market access and forest proximity on livelihood strategies in Cambodia."
Much of the Chicago School’s scholarship has focused on the process of “becoming urban”: the process of becoming entangled in a set of urban networks, coming to identify with certain urban places,...
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A new paper by members of the Becoming Urban research team reveals a "complex web" of interacting socio-environmental factors driving migration to Cambodian cities.
Using the Mekong River in Cambodia as a case study, this paper discusses how to understand rivers as food environments, how rivers underpin food security, and their unique features and threats.
A new paper published in the journal World Development considers "the interrelated impacts of credit access, market access and forest proximity on livelihood strategies in Cambodia."
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Much of the Chicago School’s scholarship has focused on the process of “becoming urban”: the process of becoming entangled in a set of urban networks, coming to identify with certain urban places,...
