Luke Duggleby

CAMBODIA: Returned to Sender

Eric Hem sits and watches life go by. A new arrival, he has had a very hard time adjusting to life in Cambodia. With no history of mental health, he regularly sees psychiatrists and psychologists who help him try to adapt to his new life. After escaping the Khmer Rouge regime to the US as refugees, many young American Cambodians are being sent back to Cambodia never to return to the US again. A new policy in 2002 meant that any US-Cambodian who still had not applied for US citizenship and had been convicted of a felony would be deported back to Cambodia after living in the US all their life. Over 1400 convicted felons are proposed to be sent back in the next few years and naturally the re-adjustment to a life they don't know or understand is a difficult one.
Eric Hem sits and watches life go by. A new arrival, he has had a very hard time adjusting to life in Cambodia. With no history of mental health, he regularly sees psychiatrists and psychologists who help him try to adapt to his new life.

After escaping the Khmer Rouge regime to the US as refugees, many young American Cambodians are being sent back to Cambodia never to return to the US again.

A new policy in 2002 meant that any US-Cambodian who still had not applied for US citizenship and had been convicted of a felony would be deported back to Cambodia after living in the US all their life. Over 1400 convicted felons are proposed to be sent back in the next few years and naturally the re-adjustment to a life they don't know or understand is a difficult one.