Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI State lawmakers want to establish a commission charged with improving the quality of life for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in New York. The issue was highlighted Wednesday by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S.
Chandra Bhan Prasad is an Indian scholar and political commentator. He is editor of Dalit Enterprise Magazine and has been widely quoted by the world press on issues of caste and the treatment of Dalits in India.
We are excited to launch the fourth cohort of New York Historical Society’s WAMS Ambassadors program! This dynamic program provides instruction on how to use resources from the Women & the American Story (WAMS) curriculum website to promote women’s history. WAMS Ambassadors are educators committed to not only incorporating more women’s voices into their own instruction, … Read more
Sixty-three groups across the country representing and allied with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have signed a letter of “strong opposition” to any “short-term extension” of the 702 program—surveillance, the groups say, that is almost certainly impacting Asian Americans at a disproportionate rate.
There were almost 97,000 encounters with Indian migrants in the U.S. over the past year, nearly a fivefold increase from the same period from 2019 to 2020, when there were almost 20,000.
For the new study, researchers looked at data from the National Health Interview Survey from 2013 to 2018, representing about 13 million Asian adults. They were divided into four groups: Chinese, Asian Indian and Filipino people, the nation’s three largest Asian ethnic groups, and a fourth group of people with other Asian heritage.