Yanyu Chen is a doctoral student in anthropology at the National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. Her dissertation explores how the illicit market intersects and coexists with Cambodia’s political and economic systems in the cybercrime sector, breaking the sovereign state’s monopoly on violence and intersecting with transnational business networks to form a global illicit network.
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