Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
In 2020, Yeshan Qian, a first year Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center, published an article with Eva J. Daussà, titled “Language transmission among multilingual Chinese immigrant families in the Northern Netherlands” in the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.
The Volcker Alliance and the City University of New York (CUNY) announced the winners of the second annual Paul A. Volcker Careers in Government Essay Contest, Jungah Ahn and Evana Said. The Volcker Alliance hosted this contest in partnership with CUNY to recognize and support students who aspire to careers in public service.
The impact of the ongoing pandemic on Asian Americans in New York City has been particularly shocking. With this in mind, the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) released its report “A Rising Tide of Hate and Violence against Asian Americans in New York During COVID-19: Impact, Causes, Solutions,” co-authored with Paul Weiss, … Read more
A new surge of anti-Asian attacks comes nearly a year after Covid spawned increased vitriol toward people of Asian descent across the country
As [the U.S. Census Bureau] announced last week, the deadline for this work is April 30, 2021. This focus on meeting [its] constitutional obligation has delayed some of the processing activities necessary to generate the redistricting counts. [The Bureau] expect[s] to deliver the redistricting data to the states and the public by Sept. 30, 2021.
When the filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung began writing a movie based on his childhood as the son of a Korean immigrant farmer in Arkansas, he worried about how it might resonate on a wider level. “I used to not trust that specificity about my own self: I didn’t think it would be interesting to people,” … Read more