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Committee for Election Rights of Overseas Cambodians
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Political Paradigm of Pragmatism from the Khmer Youth part 52
This part (52), Mr. Sophan Seng elaborated on The CEROC or Committee for Elections Rights of Overseas Cambodians. This diasporic volunteering leadership has mainly focused on two goals:
1. Collecting all suggestions, petitions, and participation of the Khmers overseas in order to campaign for inclusive participate in Cambodia elections. This participation shall enrich the Cambodia political leadership and participatory democracy of this nation.
- Focusing on researches and publications of some technical, mechanism and procedural practices from many countries who have included their citizens abroad to vote at their home-country elections.
By incorporating with many stakeholders, the CEROC is being recognized by Khmers diaspora, migrant workers, students, and government officials working abroad, widely.
Remittances transferred from Asian Americans to the origin country: a case study among Cambodian Americans
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Abstract
Southeast Asians were some of the first refugees arriving in the United States of
America with federal refugee assistance after the passage of the Refugee Act of
- A large population from Cambodia entered the United States in the 1980s as a
result of one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. In this paper, I investi-
gate the scope and motives for remittances from the United States that are transferred
to Cambodia, the country of origin of the refugees. This will be done by taking a
closer look at trends in remittances between 1992 and 2013, factors that contribute to
the decisions to send remittances, and the characteristics of remittance recipients. The
study found out that: (1) around half of the total remittances in the world transferred
to Cambodia were derived from the United States, while amounts from each individ-
ual sender depended upon the economic condition of Cambodian Americans and the
financial needs of their target recipient; (2) factors influencing decision-making in
sending remittances included regular communication, age, amount of time for arrival
to the receiving country, and closer association to Cambodian communities in the
United States; and (3) remittances were primarily transferred to senior and younger
family members for use in daily expenditures, health care and educational support.
The effectiveness of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers
Political Paradigm of Pragmatism from the Khmer Youth part 51
This part (51), Mr. Sophan Seng elaborated on good leaders who have always produced more leaders, not more followers. Theoretically, the concept broadens from family leadership, to community and nation leadership. Western philosophy as well as Cambodian philosophy exclusively boosts the importance of empowering youths and new members of community to be self-reliance and self-accountability. Khmer proverb says “young bamboo shoots are the backbone of future generations” is a testament of this basic human resource leadership.
Practically, at the juncture of Cambodia changes, political landscape has been inherited by hierarchy of upper power abused their own power boundary to advance for personal gains. Subsequently, the lower powers and bottom line citizens are tamed to be submissive and dependent. This type of leadership shall shrink this nation in the long term future.
To develop this nation for long term future sustainable growth, the attitude change is a must for all Cambodian citizens. But to achieve this mission pragmatically, we should consider the Khmer proverb “don’t bent the Srolao tree, don’t instruct the oldies”. So to change attitude of Cambodian people, we should begin with those children (kindergarten or grade 1).