Quitting Nepal?: A Case of a Janajati Community in the US
- Seika SatoDetails
9 February 2025/२७ माघ २०८१ (आइतबार, दिउँसो ३ बजे)
Research Seminar Series
Quitting Nepal?: A Case of a Janajati Community in the US
Seika Sato, Professor, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract:
Past several decades have seen a torrent of Nepali migrants heading for overseas countries. This presentation discusses why many Nepalis are leaving Nepal for some foreign land through dwelling on the case of a janajati community: Hyolmos, a Tibetan Buddhist community from the area northeast to the Kathmandu Valley. Focusing especially on Hyolmo migrants to the US, where hundreds of them have already settled to make America their new home, it explores their experience of passage to America and why they “choose,” at least for now, to quit Nepal for it.
About the Speaker:
Seika Sato is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of two books, Conversing with Hyolmo Women: An Anthropology of Life/Story in Nepal (the title translated from the original volume in Japanese, 2015) and Women in 'New Nepal': Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries (2023). She is one of the editors of the journal Studies in Nepali History and Society.