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...
According to a 2018 survey conducted by AAPI Data and APIA Vote, for example, 50 percent of AAPI voters had received no outreach or weren’t sure if they had from the Democratic Party, while 60 percent said the same about the Republican Party. There’s no updated data on this front yet but experts continue to...
GJELTEN: In his speech in Houston, President Trump took care to distinguish between successful Indian immigrants and those coming into the country illegally. But Karthick Ramakrishnan, who directs the Asian American Voters Survey at the University of California, says many Indian Americans still identify with other minority groups, especially at a time of rising white...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy and political science at the University of California at Riverside, directs the National Asian American Survey. He said that Indian Americans have been among the most liberal subset of Asian American voters. “The Democratic Party had a lot more credibility as being seen as the party of anti-discrimination...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor at UC Riverside and founder of AAPI Data, and Janelle Wong, a professor at the University of Maryland and a research fellow at AAPI Data, highlighted a 2019 report from the Census Bureau as a reason to be concerned about a potential Asian American undercount in the 2020 Census. This report...
Asian Americans have the lowest rate of civic participation, just under Latino voters, according to the Pew Research Center. Language and cultural barriers contribute in the lack outreach, causing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders voters to either be under informed or totally unaware of the political process entirely, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a University of California...
The Globe editorial board opted not to endorse any candidate ahead of the New Hampshire primary, and is calling instead for a rotating cast of more diverse states to vote first... The Globe editorial board is also calling for several states to vote simultaneously on the first primary day, thereby defusing the symbolic power and...
When asked if he thought race was a reason Andrew Yang lasted longer than other candidates and if the #YangGang was diverse, Matt Stevens at New York Times response was that the Yang Gang certainly became diverse, both racially and ideologically. He attracted Trump voters and Bernie Sanders supporters and everyone in between. Research from...
The virtual town hall — which was hosted by nonprofits Asian Pacific Islander American Vote, Asian American Journalists Association, AAPI Data, and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans — marked the first of its kind to require Democratic candidates to answer to the AAPI constituency. Many social media users noted that the event was...
In a survey, Asian-Americans reported a lower likelihood of filling out their census forms than any other demographic group. They are also the least familiar with the census, on average, and the most worried that their information will be used against them, according to a Census Bureau report. The number of Asian-Americans grew by more...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a plan Thursday that would potentially help low-income and other underserved Asian Americans. Some federal agencies, but not all, currently collect and publish data on Asian Americans as a whole. The Obama administration had issued a guidance that agencies should collect and publish data that are...
The Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office has begun tracking criminal histories of immigrants charged with illegal re-entry into the U.S. and will be made publicly available online every month. The move was made in an attempt to dissuade Arizonans from pursuing sanctuary city legislation by sharing the criminal histories of the immigrants that they are processing...
After tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang ended his Democratic presidential campaign on Tuesday night, many experts said his run was a culturally significant moment for Asian Americans. “Andrew Yang is just the latest casualty of a nominating system that is unrepresentative of the country, and of the Democratic Party,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data, said...
