Polling AAPI Voters

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Daniel Ichinose
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Exit Poll ◽  
Asian Pacific American ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Asian Pacific

Exit polls are surveys of voters once they cast their ballot. However, they are often unreliable sources of information on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters. Several community organizations like the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) in Los Angeles attempts to provide a more accurate exit polling results about AAPI. The methodologies used to conduct the exit poll are noted. To properly conduct polling, it requires tremendous amount of resources such as time, funding, and staff, and is also a very difficult activity to do for a long period of time. Problems outside of the pollsters such as low voter turn out negatively affects the effectiveness of polling. The absentee ballot also renders polling as not wholly accurate since many AAPI due to their voting this way. However polling has plenty of merits as it helps document AAPI voting behavior which can be used for program planning and voting right litigation. Exit poll results are useful in targeting voter education plans. Pollsters are helping depict the emerging AAPI electorate and will also help protect its right to vote.

Asian American Studies and the Fight for Worker Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 198-219
Author(s):  
Kim Geron ◽  
Loan Dao ◽  
Tracy Lai ◽  
Kent Wong
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Labor Union ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Asian Pacific American ◽  
Asian Pacific

This essay explores higher education–labor partnerships in the contemporary era between Asian American Studies (AAS), the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), and AAS community partnerships. With the intensified attacks on workers, unions, and Asian American, Pacific Islander, and other communities of color, the importance of higher education and labor and community partnerships will be a valuable resource to expand critical research and participatory education. These partnerships embody the community studies’ roots of AAS. Using three case studies, this essay highlights these partnerships and concludes with a discussion of the opportunities and challenges students can experience when working in labor union spaces and recommendations for building university-labor partnerships.

Garment Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-90
Author(s):  
Scott L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Garment Workers ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
Asian Pacific American ◽  
Asian Pacific ◽  
Wire Fence

Launched in 1995 with the discovery of more than seventy enslaved Thai workers in a suburban apartment complex surrounded by barbed wire fence, the movement to end garment sweatshops—led by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center—pioneered the integration of strategic litigation and worker organizing to challenge inequality in Los Angeles. The sweatshop regime was built upon a legal foundation of subcontracting, which insulated retailers and manufacturers from the contractors actually producing clothing. At its most ambitious, the campaign sought to make legal responsibility follow economic power, rupturing the fiction that protected retailers and manufacturers from labor abuses such as those uncovered in the Thai worker case. Chapter 2 shows how lawyers built a powerful alliance with labor and grassroots organizers, won important legal victories in court, and achieved passage of a landmark state law creating manufacturer liability for contract labor violations. It then traces the campaign through the fierce battle against retailer Forever 21, which showed the power of industry countermobilization and ultimately marked the end of the litigation campaign. This outcome underscored a central lesson of legal mobilization in the new economy: Individual enforcement and litigation strategies, even when paired with innovative organizing and media campaigns, faced long odds challenging abuse enabled by extensive contracting and—crucially—the threat of global outsourcing. However, in fusing law and organizing, the anti-sweatshop campaign marked a new beginning in the movement against low-wage work—one that would deploy the tools honed in the garment manufacturing context to target Los Angeles’s immobile service industries.

Reducing bullying: Asian Pacific American teen perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Kwan ◽  
Michael Westbrook ◽  
Thomas De Oliviera ◽  
Marshall Grimm ◽  
Denise Kuraitis
Keyword(s):  
Asian Pacific American ◽  
Asian Pacific

Become Visible: Let Your Voice Be Heard

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vu Pham ◽  
Lauren Emiko Hokoyama ◽  
J.D. Hokoyama
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Asian Pacific American ◽  
Asian Pacific

Since 1982, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP) has been intent on “growing leaders” within Asian Pacific American (APA) communities across the country. LEAP’s founders had a simple yet powerful idea: In order for APA communities to realize their full potential and to foster robust participation in the larger democratic process, those communities must develop leaders in all sectors who can advocate and speak on their behalf. A national, nonprofit organization, LEAP achieves its mission by: Developing people, because leaders are made, not born; Informing society, because leaders know the issues; and Empowering communities, because leaders are grounded in strong, vibrant communities.

From Merging Histories to Emerging Identities: An “Asian” Museum as a Site of Pan-ethnic Identity Promotion

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Chong-suk Han ◽  
Edward Echtle
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Pacific Islander ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Asian Pacific Islander ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Asian American Identity ◽  
Asian Pacific ◽  
A Site

In this paper, we explore the significance of the Wing Luke Asian Museum (WLAM) in Seattle, Washington as a site where pan-ethnic Asian American identity can be promoted by analyzing the strategies employed by the staff and artists of the WLAM to promote, foster and disseminate a larger Asian Pacific Islander American pan-ethnic identity. We argue that museums are a significant site that can “provide a setting for persons of diverse Asian backgrounds to establish social ties and to discuss their common problems and experiences.”

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