BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN AND SONO SHAH
The issue of undocumented immigration is gaining national attention, with the Trump administration passing an executive order on interior enforcement and floating ideas including suspending federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions and potentially mobilizing National Guard troops for immigration enforcement. How …
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BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN
Summary: In 2012, there were 10.8 million AAPI eligible voters and in 2016, we estimate this number to be 12.0 million. Using a conservative estimate of voter registration rates from 2012, we estimate that there are about 7.1 million AAPI registered voters in 2016.
It is Election Day 2016, and there is significant news interest in Asian …
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BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN
Earlier this month, FiveThirtyEight published a story on shifting party identification among Asian American registered voters between the 2012 and 2016 National Asian American Surveys. Our 2012 report presented tables on party identification among all adults, but our 2016 report presented party identification among registered voters only.
538 was interested in an over-time comparison, so we re-analyzed …
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BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN
[Update 10/14/16 7:20pm PT: added #brownAsians to title]
Early this week, New York Times deputy Metro editor Michael Luo wrote An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China. This piece followed up on a Twitter conversation he had initiated, #thisis2016, which brought out hundreds of stories of fellow Asian …
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Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the United States. The Asian American population increased from 0.7 percent in 1970 to 6 percent in 2015 alone. By 2065, demographers project that Asian Americans will more than double in size, accounting for 14 percent of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). Driving …
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When we think of the American scientist, we think of a story on demographics and change. Speaking in looser terms, we define that change not only in the context of scientific progress but also to societal progress. With the United State’s projected to become a majority-minority country by 2060, …
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Many scholars have called for the need to disambiguate details about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across backgrounds like ethnicity, education, civic participation, and time of migration. What is sometimes equally muddled are the subgroups consisting of various nationalities who are categorized together under the guise of having a similar language. “Chinese,” this project’s …
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While the majority of Asian Americans support affirmative action, some believe that Asian Americans may be adversely affected by race-conscious admissions policies. To find out how Asian Americans were doing at elite universities, I researched admissions trends from 2006-2015 at 10 schools – both public and private. The schools were: University of Texas, Austin; University of North Carolina, …
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By 2020, about a third of all jobs in the United States will require at least a bachelor’s degree; two-thirds will require at least some college education. Youth who lack postsecondary credentials and work experience are more likely to have low unemployment prospects. In response to the increased demand for an educated workforce, we have seen a renewed …
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Generally lost in the national narrative about corporate diversity is a discussion of the issues facing Asian Americans. This report takes a closer analysis of EEOC workplace data sets disaggregated by race and gender and finds that professional Asian American men and women are the least likely to become executives in private industry.
Further inspection …
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