The Village of the Damned? Myths and Realities of Structured Begging Behaviour in and Around Phnom Penh
研究了金边有组织乞讨移民的性质及其对输出社区的影响，质疑了关于“富裕”乞丐超自然动机的流行神话，揭示了乞讨与移民之间的模糊界限。
This paper concerns the nature of structured begging migration in Phnom Penh, as well as its impact and meaning in sender communities. It interrogates a popular myth known throughout Cambodia concerning the supernatural motivation of ‘rich’ beggars, arguing that its prevalence reflects the growing incidence of structured, circular migration based around alms seeking in the capital. In doing so, it seeks to bridge the lacuna between the literature on begging and that on migration by showing that the distinction between the two is both blurred and straddled by migrants in many cases.