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.
