Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 12-2-2016
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Abstract
In recent years, thousands of Vietnamese migrant farmers have crossed the border into Cambodia and leased land for export-oriented rice and shrimp production. Based on case studies in two Cambodian border provinces, we argue that these land transfers represent an intersection of broader processes of agrarian change that is re-shaping the Cambodian borderlands into a hybrid socio-ecological zone. Cambodian landlords and intermediaries use unequal access to politico-legal authority and the exclusionary power of the border to leverage control over their migrant tenants, thereby capturing a significant portion of the surplus from the migrants’ high-value commodity production systems and potentially creating new trajectories of agrarian transition.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1241770
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Gorman, Timothy and Beban, Alice, "From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia–Vietnam border" (2016). Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 51.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/sociology-facpubs/51
Published Citation
Beban, Alice, and Timothy Gorman. "From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the Cambodia–Vietnam border." The Journal of Peasant Studies 44, no. 4 (2017): 748-768.
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