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Resource March 28, 2018

Meet the Journalist: Ben Mauk on Cambodia's Floating Villages

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Floating Vietnamese village in Cambodia. Image by Flickr user Tyler Ingram. Cambodia, 2012. Used via Creative Commons license.
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In Cambodia’s floating villages, tens of thousands of ethnic Vietnamese eke out precarious lives on...

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An ethnic Vientamese food vendor paddles through a floating village on Tonlé Sap Lake. Image by Ben Mauk. Cambodia, 2017.
An ethnic Vientamese food vendor paddles through a floating village on Tonlé Sap Lake. Image by Ben Mauk. Cambodia, 2017.

For The New York Times Magazine, Ben Mauk spent five weeks on floating villages in rural Cambodia to report on the world's least-known stateless population. The ethnic Vietnamese are Cambodia's largest minority and have lived in the country for centuries, but they face discrimination and violence, living precariously on illegal floating settlements without recourse to citizenship or the rule of law.

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