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Title: ISSUE ON “ASIAN AMERICANS: DIVERSITY AND HETEROGENEITY”

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Asian Americans are the fastest growing and most diverse group in the country; they were 1 percent of the population in 1970, 6.4 percent today and are projected to be about 10 percent by 2060. Immigration has driven much of this growth. China and India have surpassed Mexico as the leading sources of new immigrants, and by 2055, Asians will become the largest immigrant group (Colby and Ortman 2015; U.S. Census Bureau 2015). The new face of immigration is Asian, but Asian is a catch-all category that masks tremendous diversity, heterogeneity, and inequality. In 1960, 80 percent of the U.S. Asian population was either Chinese or Japanese, but today their share is 20 percent. Immigrants and refugees from South and Southeast Asia have fueled the growth and diversity of the Asian American population U.S. Census Bureau 2016). And unlike other ethnoracial groups, most Asians are foreign-born (U.S. Census Bureau 2015). Two-thirds are immigrants and 90 percent are either immigrants or their children. Moreover, one in seven Asian immigrants is undocumented, and this group is growing at a faster rate than the Mexican and Central American undocumented populations (Ramakrishnan and Shah 2017).

Url: https://www.rsfjournal.org/sites/default/files/closed calls for articles/Lee_Ramakrishnan_RFP.pdf

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Authors: Lee, Jennifer; Ramakrishnan, Karthick

Publisher: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States