Shifting Identities: Perceptions and Experiences of the Burmese Nepali Diaspora in Urban Chiang Mai, Thailand

This research studies the development of the Burmese-Nepali 'Gorkhali' community on urban Chiang Mai, focusing on the cultural orientation they brought from both Burma and Nepal and which they have retained since migrating to Thailand. This aspect of the community reflects a diasporic identity that is reflected in the lives of the twice-migrant Nepalis. The interest and focus in this study is the cultural representation of Nepali identity that conceptually situates the Burmese-Nepali as a Nepali diaspora in Thailand.