Photographer: A.M. Ahad Title: Fatality of Fate Location: Cambodia SocialDocumentary.net | A.M. Ahad | Fatality of Fate | Cambodia

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This is the salvage company where Nguyen works from day to night.

This is the place: a salvage company in Cambodia that Nguyen searched for a long time. One day in 2006 he left his homeland of Vietnam, heading to the salvage company to materialize his dream to live with dignity and bring a smile to his family. But the fate he found in the salvage company has not helped to reach his dream because he gets a nominal salary despite inhumanely struggling day and night.

There are many workers like Nguyen who have come to Cambodia, crossing the borders to look for lucrative work. But there are no jobs other than those like the one in the salvage company that Nguyen has, because he is a migrant worker without Cambodian identification. With Cambodian identification, Nguyen could get a lucrative job. However, he and many other migrant workers are fated to work in places like the salvage company. It is estimated that at least 150,000 Vietnamese workers are in Cambodia.

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Human trafficking, Civil rights, Discrimination/Minority rights, The human condition, Work, Workers rights/unions, Migrant workers

Name: photojournalist

Date: 02.13.11

I don't happen to agree with the anonymous viewer's opinion above. As a matter of fact, I think the images are incredibly strong and don't need captions because their magic comes through without any explanation.

Name: Living in SE Asia

Date: 02.02.11

Love the ignorance of the captions. Are you without clue? Yes, apparently.

> Two hands and the machinery show how the migrant workers are inhumanly struggling every day.

Really. Then every American who repairs cars, fixed plumbing or any other real skill is "inhumanely struggling".

I get the impression this was like a first-time-to-SE-Asia-vacation-slash-make-a-few-bucks kind of thing by a caviar-Communist. These guys actually have some marketable skills and this both puts them on above most others on the economic food chain and probably is better than what they left in Vietnam. Farmers are likely worse off - oh, but that would violate the progressive-nativist "farming is bucolic" delusion, wouldn't it.

> A migrant worker is struggling to free a screw from a broken bus.

LOL. Might as well say: "A migrant worker is struggling to keep his 747 in the air". Maybe he's "struggling to tame a lion". No. He's cutting a wire bundle, not "freeing a screw". Yes. Accuracy matters especially when pervasive inaccuracy forms a pattern tainting the entire presentation.

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