When the French ruled Indochina, they had a shortage of white collar workers in Cambodia and Laos, so solved it by bringing in many thousands of Vietnamese, which, understandably, didn’t please the Cambodians and Laotians too much. Most of these Vietnamese would be kicked out in waves, sometimes violently, as happened in Cambodia during the 70’s.
Still,
many Vietnamese have returned to both countries, and the primary reason
is population pressure, for Vietnam has 96 million people, while
Cambodia and Laos only 16 and 7 million. It’s also why China and
Sub-Saharan Africa will continue to export people.
Although
there are certainly rich illegal immigrants, most tend to be poorer
than the locals, so in Cambodia, which is even more impoverished than
some Sub-Saharan countries, many Vietnamese are in truly sad shape.
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