Roshid, who fled danger in his homeland and sought safety in Australia, only to be dumped on Nauru, now feels abandoned in Cambodia. “I felt hopeless and broken when I saw that refugees from Manus and Nauru were being resettled in the US and Canada because I couldn’t see a future for me in Cambodia,” Roshid says. The IOM has previously told Al Jazeera its staff thought “long and hard” about getting involved with the Cambodia deal. “It’s very difficult for people of any description, let alone refugees, to get citizenship in Cambodia,” Thom says. Refugees living in Cambodia were eligible to apply for Khmer nationality through naturalisation after seven years, he says.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2019 18:56 UTC