Asian Indian Immigration Patterns: The Origins of the Sikh Community in California

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan L. Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian Indian ◽  
Asian Indians ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Present Decade ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
The U.S

This article outlines the immigration and settlement patterns of Asian Indians in the United States from the turn of the century to the present decade. The focus is on the efforts of the Sikh pioneers to succeed in what can only be viewed as a hostile social environment, marked primarily by racial discrimination and legal restrictions on their entry into this country. With modifications in the U.S. immigration laws of 1965 an educated professional class of Asian Indians have monopolized the flow of immigrants from India, with the result that the Sikhs presently constitute a small proportion of the total number of Asian Indians in the U.S. However, the recent political crisis in India has served to galvanize the American Sikh community into political action. This has resulted in a political split between the Sikhs and other Asian Indians in this country. This article concludes with an analysis of the demographic composition of the “third wave” Asian Indian immigrants in the United States and their potential impact on political conditions in India.

Collective (Mis)Representation of U.S. Immigration Laws

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-532
Author(s):  
Stephanie Pedron
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Collective Representations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Ideal

This paper examines historic federal immigration policies that demonstrate how the United States has rendered entire groups of people living inside and outside of its territory as outsiders. Collective representations like the Statue of Liberty suggest that the U.S. is a nation that welcomes all immigrants, when in reality, the U.S. has historically functioned as a “gatekeeper” that excludes specific groups of people at different times. The concurrent existence of disparate beliefs within a society’s collective consciousness influences the public’s views toward citizenship and results in policy outcomes that contrast sharply from the ideal values that many collective representations signify. As restrictive immigration controls are refined, insight into how immigrant exclusion via federal policy has evolved is necessary to minimize future legislative consequences that have the potential to ostracize current and future Americans.

Raising the Drawbridge to Cuba

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
David Scott FitzGerald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Remote Control ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
The U.S ◽  
High Seas ◽  
At Home

U.S. policies toward Cubans have oscillated between periods of welcome and restriction embedded in an overall trajectory of restriction. The biggest difference between the treatment of Haitian and Cubans was that only Cubans seeking protection were granted realistic legal paths to enter the United States through visa waivers for air passengers, relaxation of enforcement of immigration laws, more robust asylum screening on the high seas, and in-country processing programs for dissidents and other programs guaranteeing slots in the immigration stream. The favorable treatment of Cubans shows that even tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving over the course of a few months did not threaten the capacity of the United States to provide sanctuary for those facing persecution at home. The Cuban case also challenges the conceptualization of remote control. Remote control’s efficacy is highly dependent on collaboration by other governments, such as Cuba’s willingness to accept Cubans intercepted at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.

scholarly journals Second Generation Asian-Indian Reactions To Asian-Indian And American Magazine Advertisements

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Durriya H. Z. Khairullah ◽  
Zahid Y. Khairullah
Keyword(s):  
Asian Indian ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Asian Indians ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Product Class ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
Advertising Strategies ◽  
The U.S

This paper is an extension of a previous study which addressed cultural perceptions of first generation Asian-Indians. The current study includes second generation Asian-Indians in the U.S. (The United States of America) and compares their reactions to the first generation subjects regarding Indian magazine advertisements versus American magazine advertisements of the same product class. The results indicate that cultural perceptions of the second generation Asian-Indian are similar to cultural perceptions of first generation Asian-Indians in the earlier study. In general, both generations appear to prefer Indian advertisements more than the corresponding American advertisements. This offers opportunities for U.S. marketers to continue to develop culturally attuned advertising strategies to effectively reach the growing and affluent Asian-Indians in the U.S.

Chinese Student and Labor Migration to the United States: Trends and Policies since the 1980s

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudley L. Poston ◽  
Hua Luo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
The U.S

This paper analyzes recent patterns of Chinese immigration to the United States. We mainly compare the migration trends of students and laborers. Foreign students enter the U.S. usually as temporary immigrants with F1 or M1 visas, thus they are easily distinguished from permanent immigrants. Labor immigrants come to the U.S. in either a permanent or temporary status. We examine and compare the trends of these groups of Chinese immigrants for the 23-year period of 1980 to 2002 and evaluate the degree to which U.S. immigration laws have influenced the trends.

Palace Intrigue: Missiles, Treason, and the Rule of Law in Bolivia

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-356
Author(s):  
John M. Carey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The U.S

The Bolivian presidency is a precarious position, not only because so many presidents have left office under duress, but because former presidents are subject to legal jeopardy. The case of Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé illustrates the weakness of the rule of law in Bolivia and the political motivations that sustain it. Rodríguez was a respected Chief Justice of Bolivia's Supreme Court. He reluctantly assumed the presidency during a political crisis and shepherded the country through peaceful elections in 2005 that brought Evo Morales to the presidency. He was subsequently charged with treason in a case that involved the transfer from the Bolivian military to the United States of some obsolete surface-to-air missiles. The Rodríguez case was politically important enough to be useful for the Morales Government, but only briefly, and the moment passed. Now, the case's obscurity and the fecklessness of the Bolivian courts have left Rodríguez in legal and professional limbo. Full disclosure from the U.S. government regarding its involvement in the missiles case might clear Rodríguez's name.

Reliability and Validity of an Asian Indian Dietary Acculturation Measure (AIDAM)

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 908-917
Author(s):  
Sumathi Venkatesh ◽  
Lorraine J. Weatherspoon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Asian Indian ◽  
Asian Indians ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dietary Acculturation ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Cross Sectional

Dietary acculturation (adopting the eating patterns/practices of the host environment) of individuals who relocate to another country could be a risk factor for diet-related chronic diseases. A reliable and validated measure for the assessment of dietary acculturation may facilitate understanding of the relationship between dietary acculturation and diet-related chronic diseases in various nonnative populations. We aimed to determine the reliability and validity of a culturally sensitive Asian Indian Dietary Acculturation Measure (AIDAM) for Asian Indians. A cross-sectional survey was administered via Qualtrics Research Suite to 191 Asian Indian adults in the United States. The web survey consisted of AIDAM, a food frequency questionnaire consisting of Asian Indian (AI-FFQ) and non-Indian (NI-FFQ) foods and participant sociodemographic questions. Reliability and validity were examined through a polytomous Rasch model. Except for one item that was excluded due to misfit, 50 items were stable. The root mean square error was .08 for all the items, and the item and person reliabilities were .98 and .88, respectively. AIDAM was positively related to NI-FFQ ( r = .265) and negatively related to AI-FFQ ( r = −.432) based on correlations and linear regressions ( p < .001). Our preliminary analysis showed the AIDAM to have good reliability and validity when tested with a sample of Asian Indians in the United States. Further large studies with Asian Indians using AIDAM are needed to support our findings. This tool can be used by health professionals and researchers to determine the level of dietary acculturation as well as diet quality implications when assessing risk for diet-related diseases.

In the Belly of the Beast

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (13) ◽  
pp. 1723-1742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seline Szkupinski Quiroga ◽  
Dulce M. Medina ◽  
Jennifer Glick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Perceived Impacts ◽  
The U.S

This paper examines the experiences of Latino adults in South Phoenix, Arizona, during a time of changing immigration policy, through the theoretical lenses of structural vulnerability and macro- and microaggression. The analyses describe how U.S.- and foreign-born Latinos experience the effects of local immigration laws and anti-immigrant sentiment. The results suggest that while there are differences between the U.S.-born and foreign-born in perceived impacts of immigration enforcement, there are few differences in perceptions of vulnerability and no evidence of lesser psychological distress among those who are not the direct targets of immigration enforcement activities. Even if they do not feel directly at risk, most respondents express concerns for family members and others in their social networks as a result of increased attention to immigration enforcement or anti-immigrant sentiment. These shared impacts may have long-term implications for Latino communities in the United States.

Italy, Italian Americans, and the Politics of the McCarran-Walter Act

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Luconi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Truman Administration ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Italian Americans ◽  
Italian Government ◽  
Italian Immigrants ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

This chapter reconstructs the eventually fruitless efforts by which the Italian government of Alcide De Gasperi and Italian Americans pursued changes to the U.S. legislation that would have let a larger number of Italian immigrants move to the United States in the early 1950s. It focuses specifically on the exploitation of the anti-communist climate of the Cold War during the Truman administration in a campaign to prevent the passing of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, a measure that reaffirmed the national origins system discriminating against prospective Italian newcomers. The essay concludes that this operation ultimately failed because Washington allowed exceptions to its restrictive immigration laws almost exclusively for expatriates from countries under Communist rule, which was not the case of Italy.

Accent Modification for Speakers With Indian Accents: Speech Characteristics and an Assessment Framework

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amee P. Shah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian Indian ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
Accent Modification ◽  
Key Questions

In this paper, I present accent-related variations unique to Asian-Indian speakers of English in the United States and identify specific speech and language features that contribute to an “Indian accent.” I present a model to answer some key questions related to assessment of Indian accents and help set a strong foundation for accent modification services.

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