Cambodian brides-to-be heading to China

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clutchcargo wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:09 am
Duncan wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:31 am I looked on Philippines Cupid site and there are many girls from Philipines that say they are located and working in China.
Mainland China or Honkers? Many, many maids in the latter..
Taiwan, probably.
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A Chinese photographer puts Cambodian brides in the spotlight. Interesting video on the link.

Through Her Lens: Cong Yan Chronicles China’s Cambodian Brides
To raise awareness of human trafficking, photographer Cong Yan spent four years documenting the life of a Cambodian woman in China.
Feb 08, 2019
Ming Ye is a writer and curator who aims to bring Chinese photography to a global audience.
This article is part of a series on Chinese photographers.


Buntha first arrived at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport from Cambodia in November 2013 with little to her name other than a tourist visa. As soon as she was off the plane, she was whisked into a packed car and driven overnight to Huanggang, a rural town in the eastern province of Jiangxi. It was there that the 32-year-old met her groom-to-be: a local man and part-time laborer 15 years her senior surnamed Zou.

Buntha — who asked to be identified by just her first name — grew up in a remote village in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia. One of the poorest countries in Asia, it has few opportunities for young, largely uneducated women like herself. Most women from her village end up working at garment factories sewing designer clothes and handbags for little over $100 a month. Buntha remembers being awestruck when she saw China’s massive, sparkling metropolises on TV. So, when a local marriage broker offered her $1,000 and a deal — go to China and get married — she agreed, dreaming of the day she could support her farming family.

There are no reliable statistics on the number of Cambodian mail-order brides currently living in China, but according to a report from The Cambodia Daily, Chinese officials estimated that the country was home to about 6,900 such women as of August 2016. Jiangxi's marriage registration bureau alone has handled more than 2,000 cases involving Cambodian women.
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Wedlocked: Tangled webs trap Cambodian ‘brides’ in China
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March 11, 2019 at 14:05 JST

KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia--On the Chinese messaging service WeChat, Ol En scrolled back through time. Call unanswered. Call unanswered. Call declined.

The last she'd heard from her teenage daughter was a voice message on Feb. 10. "Mum--they don't give me a penny. They just keep me in the house. Maybe things will change when I give them a baby," it said.

Sitting stone-faced in her one-room shack in rural Cambodia, chickens clucking and wind kicking up red dust, the mother of three recalled how her first-born was trapped in China.

"She escaped once and the brokers almost beat her to death," En said. "If she dares to run again, there are no guarantees."

The 16-year-old is one of thousands of Cambodians fallen prey to criminal matchmakers who scour the poorest pockets of Southeast Asia for young brides to send to China.

Some 40 million men in China will need to look abroad for a wife by 2020, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences think tank--the legacy of Beijing's one-child policy, which has seen families abort female fetuses for decades.

Hundreds of thousands of women from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar have gone to China to wed, activists say. Some end up happily married; others speak of violence and forced labor.

With few employment avenues for young women and ballooning debt levels, rural Cambodian families make soft targets for brokers who ensnare the relatives of potential brides in their schemes, blurring the lines between victims and accomplices.
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Pandemic seen fuelling Cambodian 'bride trafficking' to China
by Matt Blomberg, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 11 December 2020 13:35 GMT
COVID-19’s impact on key industries in Cambodia is pushing more women abroad, charities say
PHNOM PENH, Dec 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The trafficking of Cambodian "brides" to China has risen sharply this year with mass job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic driving more young women and girls abroad to support their families, according to two charities that help victims.

Over the past decade, tens of thousands of women from Southeast Asia have been sent to China by criminal networks promising lucrative jobs, only to be sold as brides - some to abusive men - as China grapples with a huge gender imbalance.

Anti-trafficking organisations said the impact of coronavirus on Cambodia's garment, hospitality and tourism sectors had fuelled a spike in "bride trafficking" this year.

"There is no work, no options, for young women, so it has become even easier for perpetrators to persuade women and their families," said Chan Saron, program manager at Chab Dai.

The charity has received reports of a new case every three days on average in 2020 - double the caseload of previous years.

Most of the victims are in their twenties but some are as young as 14, according to Saron, who said thousands of cases were likely going unreported.

Cambodian women who have returned from China often describe experiences of sexual, physical and psychological abuse, confinement, torture and forced labour.

Authorities in Cambodia have said the crime is difficult to tackle because victims' relatives are often complicit and the promise of cash - up to thousands of dollars - by criminal matchmakers is difficult to resist for poor, rural families.
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(Reporting by Matt Blomberg, Editing by Kieran Guilbert. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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Rich preying on the poor been happening for thousands of years sadly
The one child policy is interesting, generations with no brother or sister uncle or antie, and grossly unbalanced on the male side.
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
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05/19/2022, 15.51
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More and more Cambodian women victims of bride trafficking to China
COVID-19’s economic impact aggravated a trend created by China’s infamous one-child policy. Intermediaries earn US$ 20,000 to US$ 40,000 per marriage. Women and girls enticed with a promise of work often complain that they end up married in violent or dangerous environments.

Phnom Penh (AsiaNews) – The number of Cambodian women victims of bride trafficking schemes in China continues to rise, this according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

“The number of women and girls traveling from Cambodia to China for forced or arranged marriages has surged since 2016, and experienced a further spike since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020,” reads the GI-TOC.

Although some cases might be consensual, the report notes that more and more women reported finding themselves in violent or dangerous environments once in China.

Like in all trafficking contexts, bride trafficking to China is demand-driven, fuelled by China’s infamous one-child policy, which remained in place until 2015. Combined with selective abortion, it created a gender imbalance with a shortage of women in marriageable age.

Bride trafficking has been going on since the 1980s, but saw a significant jump in 2000, when the first generation born under the one-child policy came of age.

According to the GI-TOC report, in China bride traffickers can earn between US$ 20,000 and US$ 40,000 dollars per marriage.

Some women and girls “are deceived and promised a job in China; others are told they need a marriage certificate in order to be eligible for well-paid work (which is not the case); some are tricked and sold by their family members, relatives and acquaintances for a lump sum or the promise of a good marriage and better life in China.”

To contain the problem, GI-TOC recommends, among other things, legalising marriage agencies in Cambodia and place them under close supervision and regulation. At present, they are formally banned under Cambodian law.
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I won't post links to any stories, it is all way too depressing, Vietnamese women are getting kidnapped, and smuggled into mordor all the time. To be wives against their will.

The majority of these poor women and girls come from ethnic minorities in the north. It is a sad state of affairs.
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The issue with Chinese Bride trafficking is that unlike the rich Chinese casino gamblers we often see blowing money here like if they had an endless supply the people that can't find a bride in China are often in the lower social classes.
You won't find the upper middle class educated man from Shanghai getting a trafficked bride but some villager that doesn't have a much better life or salary than the average person in Phnom Penh.
Also they need to blow a good chunk of their life savings to get the bride.
So the woman might immagine the rich Chinese or at least a middle class guy but often end up with the bottom part of Chinese society which still today is rather low income and very traditional.
Unlike in the west were even a farmer or a construction worker can earn enough for a decent apartment and a car and the welfare allows for good children education, low income Chinese have a very big income disparity and lifestyle when compared with the richer part of the population.
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Gender imbalance: Cambodian 'brides' being trafficked to China
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28 Aug 2022, 21:18 GMT+10

Beijing [China], August 28 (ANI): Lured by the promise of well-paid jobs, Cambodian women are being trafficked to China only to be sold as brides as Beijing grapples with a huge gender imbalance.

Recently, the story of a Cambodian woman, who was being trafficked to China and was forced to marry a local man, shocked the global community. The women were promised lucrative jobs, only to be sold as brides as the coercive and abusive 'one-child policy' has resulted in an acute gender imbalance.

Cambodian women and girls were trafficked to China via Vietnam which has become a transit country for women headed to China. Cambodian women who have returned from China often described experiences of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse, confinement, torture and forced labour.

According to the publication citing available information, the Cambodian women trapped in forced marriages in China--where tens of millions of men are unable to start families and are willing to pay upward of 10,000 US dollars for a foreign bride--is not new.

After the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh became stricter in assessing visa applications of young, single Cambodian women, traffickers changed their route to avoid action by the police. Rather than flying from Phnom Penh to Shanghai or Beijing, women are now trafficked overland, passed from broker to broker, until they reach the north of Vietnam. The final leg of their journey is a clandestine boat trip around the border or a back-route car ride across it.

Meanwhile, China's Supreme People's Court had stated in its annual work report that it would impose the death penalty on human traffickers.
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Justice for three victims of human trafficking...

November 16, 2022
No mercy for woman who sold minor girls to Chinese gang
The Phnom Penh Appeal Court yesterday upheld a 15-year jail term given to 57-year-old woman who sold three minor Cambodian girls to Chinese human trafficking group in 2018.

Presiding Judge Sin Visal rejected the appeal plea of convict Chim Chantha, a farmer living in Pong Toek village, Roka Pram commune, Tboung Khmum province’s Tboung Khmum district.

During yesterday’s appeal hearing, Chantha admitted committing the offence, and said that she filed the appeal to seek a reduced jail term as she was old and living with many diseases in the prison.

Judge Visal said that she was sentenced on May 15 this year by the Kratie Provincial Court to 15 years in prison on charges of ‘Unlawful Removal for Cross-Border Transfer’ under Article 11 of the Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation.

According to Ratanakiri Provincial Police’s report, Chantha who had been recruiting girls from poor families in the pretext of helping them get married to Chinese men, persuaded three underage girls living in Kratie province’s Snuol district for marriage with Chinese men in 2018.

Chantha paid $3,000 each to the victims’ parents for marriage expenses. When the victims arrived in China, their passports were seized by the Chinese ringleaders of human trafficking group.

Later they were sold to work as masseuses at a Chinese Karaoke Club there for more than a year and the owner forced them to be prostitute without pay.

The girls managed to flee in a cab to the Cambodian Embassy, and were repatriated later to Cambodia in June 2019.
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