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Aranya Siriphon
Aranya Siriphon
Aranya Siriphon is Visiting Fellow at the Regional Social and Cultural Studies Programme at Singapore’s ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. She is also Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University.

Unlike earlier Chinese migrants to Thailand, many ‘xin yimin’ report finding social interactions with local Thais challenging – and often turn to their compatriots instead.

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