Аннотация:On the border between Cambodia and Vietnam, thousands of ethnic Vietnamese refugees live on boats, having fled their homes within Cambodia.A great many more ethnic Vietnamese still live in Cambodia, although their legal status there is precarious at best.Cambodia's legislature has failed to pass a nationality law to clarify the status of the ethnic Vietnamese, but has passed an immigration law that could be used to deport those ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia.Vietnam has been reluctant to accept the refugees from Cambodia, and many of the refugees themselves consider Cambodia, not Vietnam, to be their true home.In this Comment, the author argues that both national and international legal norms require the Cambodian legislature to pass a non-discriminatory nationality law similar to those in force in other Southeast Asian countries.Such a law would give most of the ethnic Vietnamese who have lived in Cambodia full Cambodian nationality.In so advocating, the author considers and rejects arguments that Cambodia has the right under international conventions to deport ethnic Vietnamese as a remedy for actions taken by the Vietnamese government.The author also demonstrates that a deportation scheme would face enormous logistical obstacles.Finally,
