‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices

Amanda Miller; Harriot Beazley

doi:10.1080/14733285.2021.1913481

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‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices

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‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices

Amanda Miller and Harriot Beazley

Children's Geographies, Vol.20(1), pp.51-63

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.1913481

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Siem Reap

Cambodia

orphanage tourism

child-focused participatory research

children's rights

child migration

unfreedoms

UniSC Diversity Area - Life Stages

This paper examines the lived experiences of children who interacted with tourists in a performance-based orphanage in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The orphanage was perceived by poor Cambodians as the only opportunity for their children to access food and education and a place to care for children when parents migrated for work. In recent years, however, orphanages in the majority world have come under increasing international pressure because many are associated with children’s rights abuses. As a result, the Cambodian Government committed to closing many orphanages and reintegrating 30 per cent of institutionalised children back into their family’s care. The children’s narratives were collected through child-focused participatory research. The findings provide a deeper understanding of the children’s lives, their aspirations and the extent to which the orphanage provided for their rights and human development. The findings are pertinent for other communities and organisations advocating children’s rights-based development and educational initiatives.

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Title: ‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices
Authors: Amanda Miller (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
Harriot Beazley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
Publication details: Children's Geographies, Vol.20(1), pp.51-63
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1913481
ISSN: 1473-3277
Organisation Unit: School of Education and Tertiary Access; Sustainability Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99522304802621
Output Type: Journal article

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