The covid-19 virus originated in China, and many blame the Chinese for bringing the virus to the rest of the world. Because it is difficult for many non-Asian people to distinguish among different Asian subgroups, all Asians are treated as culprits... Even people harboring racist views know that it is not polite to express anti-Asian...
Inland Empire Community Foundation requests input from nonprofit groups to help respond to pressing needs during the COVID-10 outbreak. "COVID-19 is straining local nonprofits of all sizes and missions, with the loss of revenue from canceled fundraisers to having to adapt to new technology and find ways to care for vulnerable communities while keeping staff...
Almost half of the foreign-born who moved to the U.S. in the past decade were college-educated, a level of education greatly exceeding immigrants from previous decades, as the arrival of highly skilled workers supplanted workers in fields like construction that shrunk after the Great Recession. A number of “push and pull” factors, some decades in...
Nonprofits are finding creative ways to adapt to their census outreach due to the coronavirus pandemic. The in-person engagement has now shifted to a more online-based approach filled with texting and phone-banking campaigns and supplemental webinars and coaching calls. As the nation faces an unprecedented public health crisis, local groups are also trying to show...
By Deepa Bharath and Steve Scauzillo, Orange County Registrar |
And then along came the coronavirus — a pandemic that unleashed a torrent of hate and violence as bigots blamed Asian-Americans for the outbreak. In recent weeks, they have been yelled at, spit on, physically attacked and more, leading at least three organizations to begin tracking the episodes. Hundreds of people have filed reports, the...
With the National Census Day fast approaching, the University of California is asking its students to be counted. UC Riverside student and Center for Social Innovation Student Assistant, Eric Calderon, is well aware that his classmates, their lives suddenly upended by the coronavirus, may not have the U.S. census at the top of their minds...
Even though the U.S. Census Bureau has delayed field operations of its workers because of the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, efforts to offer tools to enable more effective outreach are still ongoing. They are, and part of that effort is to make sure the census as well as community organizers has...
This fall, Asian American voters could help deliver key battleground districts in states like California and Texas to Democrats. According to a February survey of 600 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) likely voters conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the polling firm GBAO, these voters favor a Democratic candidate on the generic...
As COVID-19 spreads throughout San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, some worry that it will make counting the two counties’ population in the 2020 census even harder. Karthick Ramakrishnan is a professor of political science at UC Riverside and director of the Inland Empire Complete Count Committee. He says the disruption caused by coronavirus can make...
Since Trump's election, observers have argued that his racially inflammatory speech has emboldened people with deeply held prejudices to act on them — a phenomenon that the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others, refers to as the "Trump effect." Is it true? Have Trump's remarks normalized public expressions of bias? In brief, yes. The new...
The start of the 2020 census has brought together folks from the Asian American, such as representatives of Nepalese, Burmese, Bhutanese and Mongolian immigrants, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities to join forces with census officials and community organizers to ensure a complete count of the fastest growing sector of Asian immigrants to California over...
Polls from the past year showed that no one candidate had overwhelming support from the collective AAPI community, though a majority preferred an alternative to the current administration, according to an October 2019 survey from AAPI Data and PRRI. The same data had 45% of AAPI eligible voters in California favoring Biden, while 42% were...
M.R. Rangaswami, chairman and founder of Indiaspora, a community organisation, has been in the United States for 40 years and has seen the changing status of the Indian immigrants. He observes that the Indian-American community now has a strong presence in the political scene, and is being sought after by both Republicans and Democrats... Karthick...
Political trends among AAPI groups aren’t uniform. While Vietnamese-Americans are only recently turning to the left, Americans of Chinese descent have been voting Democratic for years, said Prof. Ramakrishnan, and Republicans have recently attempted to make inroads via opposition to affirmative action. There also can be stark generational differences, with older people who may be...
Leading up to Saturday’s caucuses, the various Democratic presidential campaigns have courted AAPI voters — who make up 11% of the state’s electorate, according to APIA Vote and AAPI Data — through culturally relevant events and in-language caucus training sessions. This year’s caucus also included materials in Tagalog. Though the dozens of Fil-Ams the Asian...
Can Democrats diminish the bigotry that Donald Trump has unleashed in this country? That is the question posed by Thomas B. Edsall in his opinion piece. This article dives into the rhetoric that has been perpetrated by Donald Trump’s campaign into and during his presidency. In response, Democrats and other left-of-center advocacy groups are developing...
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a wide-ranging agenda Wednesday for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population. The plan announced by the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is titled “ Belonging, Opportunity, Empowerment: An Agenda for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” The contents of the policy website were shared prior to publication...
A team of political scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has now found solid support for this theory. "The emboldening effect of an elite like Donald Trump is most pronounced in a context where citizens are given signals that the political system tolerates prejudice by allowing candidates who engage in prejudiced speech to continue...
Now, a new study from a team of political scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found empirical support for what they term Trump’s “emboldening effect.” The team’s findings, published online last week in the British Journal of Political Science, suggest Trump’s inflammatory remarks on the campaign trail emboldened particular members of the American...
India is gearing up to impress the visiting US President Donald Trump on his first official trip to the world's most populous democracy... Indian American voters might pay particular attention. About 4.5 million people of Indian origin live in the US today, but despite their relatively small numbers, Indian Americans are a growing political force...
