Introduction 

The following story is from written from the perspective of a Diwakar, a migrant to America that I interviewed. The style of writing is based off the Book by Lehrer and Sloan called CROSSING THE BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America. In the two interview migrants from around Brooklyn, New York. All the interviews are written in the first person to allow you, the reader, to get a better feel for what it is like to be a migrant in the United States. For more stories in the Phoenix Metro area you can visit our class website for links to other pages in which all of our interviews can be located.

Few Facts about Nepal:

The GDP in Nepal as of 2016 was at 21.14B, this is a 4 times increase from its 2000 GDP which was at 5.15B.

Nepal currently has around 2.6 million migrants working abroad, this makes up around 10 percent of its population. The country was once founded on its farming of tea and herbs however, this way of life is no longer sustainable to the people of Nepal. In order for them to make wages capable of sustaining life many are forced to leave the country in search of greater wages. Most of these wages are sent back home. Around 26 percent of the countries GDP is made up of remittances. 

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the Southern Asia. Until 1951 only around 1/3 of its population was educated due to the lack of access to education. In 1951 the government created greater access for its people to schooling. Around 1/3 of the adult population in Nepal is not able to read or write.

Up until 2008 Nepal switched to its current government which is a Democracy, before that there was a monarchy in charge of running the country. Begin in the late 1950's a large amount of social unrest started showing up. The people of the country fought for Democracy however, after a massacre of the royal family, the new to rule King Gyanendra attempted to end the political unrest. He was ultimately unsuccessful after years of attempting to fight the democracy movement in the country King Gyanendra agreed to step down and hand over the sovereign to the people so they could implement the democracy they were seeking.