Luke Duggleby

CAMBODIA: Returned to Sender

In the doorway of his rented house in a suburb of Phnom Penh Bunreas Pin, 24, or Boomer to his friends, reflects on his new home. Despite both his mother and father being Khmer, his US gang tatoos immediately mark him out as an outsider to other Cambodians. Boomer is one of several hundreds young US Cambodian's who have been permanently deported back to the country they fled over twenty years ago, never to return to the US again.
In the doorway of his rented house in a suburb of Phnom Penh Bunreas Pin, 24, or Boomer to his friends, reflects on his new home.

Despite both his mother and father being Khmer, his US gang tatoos immediately mark him out as an outsider to other Cambodians. Boomer is one of several hundreds young US Cambodian's who have been permanently deported back to the country they fled over twenty years ago, never to return to the US again.