Since the late 1990s, a growing number of young adults in rural Cambodia have migrated to urban areas to take up jobs. Their migration process, networks, living and working conditions, challenges and difficulties are not yet well understood, nor are the impact of remittances and migration on sending households and communities. Aiming to fill in these knowledge gaps, this study has five objectives: (a) to understand the socio-economic background of young migrants’ households; (b) to identify the factors and circumstances that promote migration and to understand how youth decide to migrate from rural areas; (c) to examine the role of social networks in facilitating migration; (d) to discover the types of employment in urban areas for young migrants and their integration into the urban setting; (e) to understand relations with the sending household and the impact on poverty in the sending household and community.
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