Overseas Thai orThai diaspora (Thai:คนไทยพลัดถิ่น, คนไทยในต่างแดน) number approximately 1.1 million persons worldwide. They can be roughly divided into two groups:
A "non-residentThai" is acitizen ofThailand who holds a Thai passport and has temporarily emigrated to another country for employment, residence, education or any other purpose. TheBank of Thailand estimates that, as of 2016[update], 1,120,837 Thais worked overseas.[1]
A "person of Thai origin" is a person of Thai origin or ancestry who was or whose ancestors were born in Thailand or other countries under Thai ancestry and holds non-Thai citizenship. A person of Thai origin might have been a citizen of Thailand and subsequently taken the citizenship of another country.
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