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This thesis explores orphanage tourism within the context of Cambodia, adopting a critical geography approach to investigate the intricate and contentious aspects of tourism within this space.
However well intentioned, orphanage tourism locates and commodifies children as objects of rescue fantasies, objectified as adorable innocents, waiting to be loved by enthusiastic westerners. Cambodia offers holidaymakers an exotic destination in.
31 mar 2023 · Carpenter takes her reader through the sociopolitical history of Cambodia to show where and how the orphanage culture grew and why children were left there. In doing so, she looks at different meanings of being an orphan that had existed in Cambodia across time.
Understanding orphanages in Cambodia, and why to never visit them. The reign of the Khmer Rouge from 1974 to 1979 killed almost a quarter of the population and left many of Cambodia’s children displaced and/or orphaned.
Orphanage tourism specifically relates to the practice of visiting and volunteering at an orphanage while on vacation. The warm, fuzzy feeling tourists get from showering adorable children in love and affection makes it a particularly popular form of voluntourism.
‘Orphanage Tourism’ in Cambodia. When Residential Care Centres Become Tourist Attractions. Tess Guiney. Abstract: Cambodia’s recent history of instability has garnered it international notoriety as a place of genocide, cor-ruption and insecurity.
Winkler rescued 14 children, with the help of the Cambodian government, and set up her own orphanage. She soon realised opening her own institution was a mistake. The children, once away from the orphanage, began to open up. They told Winkler their parents were still alive.
