Framing returnees as potential criminals is politically convenient but counterproductive. It leads to victims being reluctant to go to authorities to ask for help.
- Lecturer, Chinese Studies, The University of Melbourne
Après avoir fui des scam factories où régnaient violences et exploitation, des centaines d’étrangers se retrouvent aujourd’hui sans abri au Cambodge, livrés à eux-mêmes et sans perspective de retour.
Thousands of people from Indonesia, China and Africa are waiting for help to return home, but the process has been slow and many are increasingly desperate.
A nationwide crackdown in July led to 3,000 arrests. But large scam operators seem to have been left untouched.
Those who escape scam compounds face persistent questions from authorities and their families about whether they are truly a victim.
Scamming is big business in Southeast Asia, on an almost unstoppable rise.
Life inside the huge scam factories across Southeast Asia using modern slavery to staff their secret compounds.
The final part of our Scam Factories podcast series, tracks how people escape from Southeast Asia’s brutal scamming compounds.
The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
The first episode of Scam Factories, a three part podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
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