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- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter III. History & Context
- Chapter IV. Coming to America
- Chapter VII. Conclusions
- I. Introduction
- B. Researcher’s Background
- A. Methods
- B. Goals of the Study
- i. “We came here for you”
- B. Transitions
- C. Diversity among Student Immigrants
- D. Imagined Communities
- B. Nationalism/Patriotism
- i. Losing Culture
- ii. Advice
- D. Returning to Nepal
- E. An Uncertain Future
- V. The Paradox
- A. Future of Nepal
- B. Future Steps
To Ayush. Thank you for your sincere friendship and willingness to share.
This project would not have been possible without the support, insight, and knowledge of the many people I have met along the way. Firstly, I would not be here without Mitch and Marcia Barrie whose constant love and support have given me the opportunity to study and pursue whatever I put my mind to. To all those Nepali students that gave me their t...
A. Nepal’s politics B. Nepal’s economics “I’m sending money home” Class and Caste C. Nepal’s social context A Patriarchal System Education The “Brain Drain” D. “Youth are the Key”
Immigration “We came here for you” The DV B. Transitions C. Diversity among Student Immigrants D. Imagined Communities
A. Future of Nepal B. Future Steps List of Interviewees
Upon my return to the US after studying in Nepal, I found myself eagerly reaching out to my friend Prabin as a way to bring me back to the culture, the people, the food, and the customs of the country that I had called ‘home’ for five months. Prabin invited me along to celebrate dashain with his family and told me of the growing Nepali community in...
My personal interest of this research began over a year ago when I spent five months in Nepal on a study abroad program. Living with a Nepali family, speaking the language, and learning about development in the context of the country’s political history provided a useful background as I completed my five months, including four weeks of ethnographic...
My first step in completing this research began with the staple cultural anthropological method to field research: participant observation. Developed by early cultural anthropologists, such as Bronislaw Malinowski, E.E. Evans Pritchard, and Margaret Mead as a means to study non-Western societies, participant observation as a way of ethnographic res...
This project attempts to update some of the aforementioned scholars’ concepts and conclusions with current opinions and concerns with perspectives from Nepali youth. These concerns are revealed through students’ immigration stories, conceptualization of Nepal’s relative development and political stability, predictions regarding their mother country...
“Nepalis come to the US with a lot of expectations so kids spend their nights with their academics,” (Malla 2014). Santosh’s words emphasize the commitment that many Nepali youth make as their families uprooted from Nepal for reasons including educational opportunity. The notion that families sacrificed everything to immigrate for the sake of their...
Upon arrival in the US, students faced a number of transitions while adjusting to school, language, culture, and a different way of living. For some students, these transitions were much simpler and easy from early exposure to Western culture via American films, music, television, and stories from family members that had traveled. Others, typically...
I have brought up differences among Nepali student youth and touched upon the interviewee population’s diversity in terms of their age of arrival and education level, caste and class, and home city or village. Through the chart below, I hope to illustrate some of the differences among students to show the diversity of those coming to the US from Ne...
“There are a lot of Nepali people here I consider family. I call them ‘Aunt’ and ‘Uncle’, and their kids my brothers and sisters,” (Mool 2014). Ashmi’s sentiments about the Nepali community that has formed and grown in Boulder reveal her attachment to individuals that may have been strangers back in Nepal. It is through finding people who have a co...
Scholars have written of the deleterious effects of development as an ideology as they point to feelings of inadequacy, backwardness, and victim status for those citizens in developing countries. There is criticism of the use of the term “underdeveloped”, as it implies inferiority to developed countries as well as the assumption that development al...
As is the struggle for students to negotiate their personal desires and parents’ expectations, Nepali youth also have to face the possibility of losing their Nepali culture. Although every interviewee expressed their overwhelming sense of nationalism as they identified as Nepali in some way, there is still this fear that parents have that their chi...
As students shared their personal identities, they revealed so much about what they wish they had known before coming to the US and what challenges they continue to face as they come of age in America. The advice that interviewees shared below reflects an array of perspectives about some of the most challenging aspects of being a Nepali that has be...
The thought of return is one that both excites and terrifies Nepali youth in the US today. To imagine being back in Nepal, surrounded by family, attending weddings and riding the bus to university, taking a chiyaa break in the afternoon is an idyllic recreation. While students feel fond about the thought of visiting Nepal, feelings are mixed about ...
“What would I do there if I already established life here?” Sunita’s question echoes the sentiments of many of the students that moved to the US from Nepal at a young age. For many of the students whose age of arrival was ten or younger, although they feel a strong sense of nationalism, they also feel a sense of detachment. Many students do not kee...
As I consider the advice that these students gave to other potential Nepali youth migrating to America today, it seems that there is a conflict between what is said and what is done or felt (Ahearn 2001). The difference between what is said and what is done is illustrated in the question that Parajuli asked, “How can you help others when you need t...
As I think back to Parajuli’s words, “youth are the key to Nepal’s future,” that sparked this research, I realize that I have only begun to explore the implications that surface in his comment. When I first began this project, I wanted to find how youth are that key, to understand Nepali youths’ motivations and means of returning to their country o...
I recognize the limitations this study has in its breadth of the Nepali immigrant youth studying in America today. Future research should consider focusing on the population of Nepalis that have returned. Understanding their perspectives can give us their reasons for return, commentary on their transition back to Nepal, and what future steps, if an...
Vijaya Chalise: We are heirs to a rich and colourful culture. Nepal is a land of unity in diversity. We can see this in its languages, religions and in its priceless heritage. But our national...
After spending a week in New York City, Prabhakar returned to Nepal with a renewed understanding of what it means to be an American. “I now realize that America is a robust society; where a nobody can be a somebody,” says Prabhakar.
Apr 16, 2019 · PDF | On Apr 16, 2019, Nilamber Chhetri published Global Nepalis: religion, culture, and community in a new and old diaspora | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
Nov 5, 2018 · This scoping review examines available information on culture and mental health in Nepal, a low-income country with a four-decade history of humanitarian mental health intervention.
