tailieunhanh - Contemporary patterns of Chinese migrants to Thailand

After China‟s major economic reform in 1978, there was a large number of Chinese people migrated abroad. Thailand is one of their most popular destination in Southeast Asia alongside Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia. At the present, the number of “New” Chinese migrants is still increasing, and expected to be more in the future. This fact draws the attention of this paper to discuss the differences of Chinese migration pattern to Thailand between the previous generation and the present one. This differentiation indicates that the present migration brings about changes to the representation of Chinese settlement in Thailand in both social cultural and economic meaning. | CONTEMPORARY PATTERNS OF CHINESE MIGRANTS TO THAILAND Watcharapon Sirisuwilai watsir@ Eastern Language Department Chinese Faculty of Humanities and Social Science Khon Kaen University Abstract After China s major economic reform in 1978 there was a large number of Chinese people migrated abroad. Thailand is one of their most popular destination in Southeast Asia alongside Myanmar Singapore Vietnam and Malaysia. At the present the number of New Chinese migrants is still increasing and expected to be more in the future. This fact draws the attention of this paper to discuss the differences of Chinese migration pattern to Thailand between the previous generation and the present one. This differentiation indicates that the present migration brings about changes to the representation of Chinese settlement in Thailand in both social cultural and economic meaning. Keyword Chinese migration Migration pattern Thailand 1. Introduction It is believed that the earliest Chinese migration to thailand dates back to the 13 th century during the Sukhothai kingdom Skinner 2003 . According to Chansiri 2008 there have been five major migrations of Chinese to Thailand. The first migration began during the first Thai Kingdom Sukhothai in 1253 Thailand established relation with Chinese emperor and the Chinese began to arrive in Thailand to trade. The second migration began during the 14th century 1318 at the start of the Ayutthaya till 1766 . The Chinese arrived in Thailand during this period to fill a labor shortage. The third migration spanned 40 years between 1767 and 1807 before and after Rattanakosin Bangkok was established in 1782 . The fourth migration took place over the course of 130 years from 1807-1937 its make Chinese population in Thailand grew rapidly in this period 230 000 in 1825 percent of the total Thai population grew to 337 000 in 1860 6 percent of the total thai population and 792 000 in 1910 percent . The fifth migration began in 1938 and extending

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