Twenty-eight percent respond in the affirmativethat political divisions in India are infecting dynamics within the Indian community in the United States. Other regions make up smaller shares: Europe, Canada and other North America (13%), the Caribbean (10%), Central America (8%), South America (7%), the Middle East and North Africa (4%) and sub-Saharan Africa (5%). Of that segment that was educated abroad, 42 percent arrived in the United States with an undergraduate degree and another 38 percent had completed a graduate or professional degree before their arrival. The interactive map below visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. While the social realities of Indian Americans are often glossed over, recent events have brought them to the fore. 8 See, inter alia, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, A New Lawsuit Shines a Light on Caste Discrimination in the U.S. and Around the World, Washington Post, July 13, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/13/new-lawsuit-shines-light-caste-discrimination-us-around-world/; and Yashica Dutt, The Specter of Caste in Silicon Valley, New York Times, July 14, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/caste-cisco-indian-americans-discrimination.html. non-profit organization funded by charitable support and advertising. This section reviews some basic characteristics of the social networks of Indian Americans. In 2018, most immigrants lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas, with the largest populations in the New York, Los Angeles and Miami metro areas. Overall, 89 percent of Hindus and Muslims apiece report they are very or somewhat comfortable having friends of the other faith. This is possibly a reflection of Indias current political climate. Roughly one-fifth lived in the Northeast (21%) and 11% were in the Midwest. 50 Surinder S. Jodhka and Ghanshyam Shah, Comparative Contexts of Discrimination: Caste and Untouchability in South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly 45, no. Give Orange. The data described below unambiguously reveal a high degree of polarization, although its structure is asymmetric. According to IAAS data, 54 percent of respondents report belonging to the Hindu faith (see figure 6). When it comes to discussing politics with family and friends, there are only small differences across citizenship status. Give Orange. 22 There is no one-to-one correspondence between Hindi and an Indian state of origin since the language is spoken across a broad swath of states, especially but not exclusively in north and central India. The first part looks at three types of engagement: civic, political, and cultural. 40 Interestingly, the Indian-origin composition of social networks does not vary significantly by respondents age. In 2018, immigrants were over three times as likely as the U.S. born to have not completed high school (27% vs. 8%). While the existence of caste discrimination in India is incontrovertible, its precise extent and intensity in the United States can be contested. Further methodological details can be found in Appendix A, along with a state-wise map of survey respondents. Today, Indian Americans are a mosaic of recent arrivals and long-term residents. Although overall levels of poverty are lower than the American average,5 there are concentrated pockets of deprivation, especially among the large number of unauthorized immigrants born in India and residing in the United States.6. The survey asks respondents if they are a member of any Indian American organization or group, such as a cultural, regional, religious, caste, community, or school-based organization. Andrew Daniller and Hannah Gilberstadt, Key Findings About Voter Engagement in the 2020 Election, Pew Research Center, December 14, 2020, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/14/key-findings-about-voter-engagement-in-the-2020-election/. In certain cases, these larger groupings consist of smaller denominations that have been aggregated upward. Among these groups, the Irish were by far the largest. 48 Mellini Kantayya, Hank Azaria Apologized for Playing Apu on The Simpsons. I Accept, Washington Post, April 22, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/22/hank-azaria-apologized-playing-apu-i-accept-i-appreciate-it/. Existing research has found that among major Asian American communities, Indian Americansboth men and womenhave the highest rate of endogamy (the custom of marrying within ones community) in both the first and second generations, although there is a noticeable increase in marriage outside of the community among members of the second generation.21. Sign up for notifications from Insider! 56 To find details on the Economist-YouGov collaboration or to compare some of the IAAS findings on Indian Americans with the American population more generally, visit https://today.yougov.com/topics/economist/survey-results. Given that there are many more Indian Americans who are Hindu in the IAAS sampleand the fact that nearly half of Christians and Muslims report that all or most of their friends share their religionthis means that both Christians and Muslims have substantially more religious homophily, relative to Hindus. YOU. But self-identification as a person of Indian origin tells us little about the strength of a respondents Indian identity. Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program and the host of the Grand Tamasha podcast at Carnegie, where he focuses on India's political economy, governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. There does appear to be some variation based on respondents religious identity (see figure 7). The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about every country in the world represented among U.S. immigrants. Another way of examining respondents regional connections in India is to look at their linguistic backgrounds. Some 42% of immigrants in the U.S. speak Spanish at home. Many Indian immigrants might have brought with them identities rooted in their ancestral homeland, while others have eschewed them in favor of a nonhyphenated American identity. The immigrant population in the United States is extraordinarily diverse, with immigrants hailing from almost every nation. To what degree do Indian Americans engage with American politics, their civic community, and Indian culture? The IAAS sample includes both citizens and non-U.S. citizens; the former category accounts for 77 percent of the survey respondents. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. Minnesota has proportionally fewer immigrants compared to the nation as a whole, but we have long been a state shaped by immigration. The heightened levels of discrimination that U.S.-born respondents report compared to immigrants hold true across categorieswhether skin color, gender, religion, or even caste. The number of naturalization applications has climbed in recent years, though the annual totals remain below the 1.4 million applications filed in 2007. 35 While this might seem counterintuitive, this finding is explained by the fact that U.S.-born respondents are significantly more likely to identify as more American than Indian. Specifically, this study addresses seven questions concerning the social realities of Indian Americans: This study is the third in a series of empirical papers on the Indian American community. 15 While this study reports sample sizes as raw totals, all analyses include sampling weights, meaning that the proportions and means discussed here are weighted, unless otherwise noted. Homophilythe tendency of individuals to associate with people similar to themselvesis a strong determinant of social networks.41 But which dimensionreligion, region of origin, or castedrives ones associations? Sampling weights were then post-stratified on 2016 presidential vote choice, as well as a three-way stratification of gender, age (four categories), and education (four categories), to produce the final weight. Yet these views vary starkly by political affiliation. The number of apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border has doubled from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019, from 396,579 in fiscal 2018 to 851,508 in fiscal 2019. 9 Nicole Hong and Jonah E. Bromwich, Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. The matched cases and the frames were combined, and a logistic regression was estimated for inclusion in the frames. according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey, Texas, Washington, New York and California, California (24%), Texas (11%) and Florida (10%), 7.6 million immigrant workers are unauthorized immigrants, drive future growth in the U.S. working-age population, Spanish is the most commonly spoken language, more apprehensions of non-Mexicans than Mexicans, Key facts about U.S. immigration policies and Bidens proposed changes, Most Latinos say U.S. immigration system needs big changes, 60% of Americans Would Be Uncomfortable With Provider Relying on AI in Their Own Health Care, The changing face of Congress in 8 charts. Florida, fourth in 2016 in the share of residents who are foreign-born, first made an appearance on the list in 1980. . Cubans are among the top five foreign-born groups in the South . The differences are especially stark for Diwali and Indian Independence Day, where the gap between the two groups is on the order of 20 percentage points. As a final step, the survey asks respondents whether they agree or disagree with the following statement: Overall, the Indian American community has a positive impact on U.S.-India relations. As of now, the community is quite bullish about the diasporas achievements in this regard. This paper explores a different cleavagepartisan affiliation in Indiaby examining how Indian Americans who favor the Congress or the BJP view supporters of the other party. U.S. 33 One might also expect variation based on a respondents age. 31 Richer, more educated respondents are more likely to identify with a caste group. CORRECTION (Sept. 21, 2020): An update to the methodology used to tabulate figures in the chartAmong new immigrant arrivals, Asians outnumber Hispanicshas changed all figures from 2001 and 2012. Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees. Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from US Census Bureau, NOW WATCH: Here's how the map of the United States has changed in 200 years. Send a Message. However, the results point in the opposite direction. Today, Indian Americans are a mosaic of recent arrivals and long-term residents. Fifty-four percent of Republicans say they are very comfortable having Democratic friends. Overall, Hindi is the most common mother tongue (19 percent), followed by Gujarati (14 percent), English only (10 percent), and Telugu (10 percent)the latter is the primary language of the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.22 Eight percent of respondents report Tamil as their mother tongue, while 7 percent apiece report Punjabi or Bengali. Forty-three percent report that some are, while 23 percent say that hardly any or none are. Table 1 provides a demographic profile of the IAAS sample in comparison to the Indian American sample in the 2018 ACS. Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies and director of Asia Programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). 2) Population estimates for stateswith an immigrant population under 2,000 persons are not provided due to insufficient sample size. In addition to asking respondents about their religious identity, the survey also asks them about the role religion plays in their life. What are the demographic characteristics of Indian Americans? The February 2021 IAAS study found several indications that polarization in India had successfully metastasized in the Indian American community in the United States. The national origins of such immigrant populations likewise differ significantly. Cuba 16,367. In 2018, China accounted for 149,000 of the new immigrants entering the United States, followed by India (129,000), Mexico (120,000), and the Philippines (46,000). How do they respond to the dual impulses of assimilation and integration? In the same exchange, Biden later added: One of the reasons why were such an incredible country is were such a diverse country. 43 The survey asks respondents how comfortable they would be having close friends from various backgrounds. Forty percent of respondents born in the United States report being a member of an Indian American organization, compared to 29 percent of those born elsewhere. Interestingly, respondents born in the United States report twice as much discrimination along gender and religious lines than those born outside of the United States. Second, given the presence of SCs among some non-Hindu religious groups, it is likely that the absolute number of SCsif not the percentagein the IAAS sample is higher. Of the non-citizen population residing in the United States, the survey finds that 80 percent of them would accept U.S. citizenship if offeredan important preference given that Indian law forbids dual citizenship. Asian immigrants collectively comprised 28%, FBI Accused of Covering Up Buried Treasure. Respondents can select from one of three responses: very comfortable, somewhat comfortable, or not comfortable. The February 2021 IAAS paper found that almost seven in ten Hindus approve of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis performance, while just one in five Muslims feel the same.34 However, without longitudinal data, it is unclear to what extent the religious divide reflects the specificities of the current contextin which Muslims in India feel especially marginalized and discriminated againstor is instead a product of longer-term trends. A few findings merit attention. She studies misinformation, media effects, and political behavior and employs survey and experimental methods in her work. . This project has been reviewed and approved by the University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board (Protocol #843855). . The label Indian origin itself masks variation in terms of ones place of birth. In the last few years, there has been much greater recognition of the discrimination faced by minority groups in the United States. Send a Message. The IAAS survey first asks respondents if they think discrimination against people of Indian origin is a major problem. The five largest foreign-born groups in the United States, including those from Mexico, the Philippines, India, China, and Vietnam, account for 44 percent of the total immigrant population. May 3, 2016. The Census Bureau combined survey results from 2013 to 2017 to enable the organizations statisticians to estimate the numbers of individuals who made up the foreign-born populations of each state and the District of Columbia. The World Unpacked is a monthly foreign policy podcast that breaks down the hottest global issues of today with experts, journalists, and policymakers who can explain what is happening, why it matters, and where we go from here. 30 For an overview of the debate over caste categories in Islam in South Asia, see Julien Levesque, Debates on Muslim Caste in North India and Pakistan: From Colonial Ethnography to Pasmanda Mobilization, Institut Francais de Pondichery and Centre de Sciences Humaines, June 1, 2020, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02697381/document. Most immigrants (77%) are in the country legally, while almost a quarter are unauthorized, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on census data adjusted for undercount. In addition, the survey asks respondents whether, in the last twelve months, they have personally felt discriminated against. Please join us on the important journey to make Dallas a better place! 57 For the methodological intuition behind this approach, see Douglas Rivers and Delia Bailey, Inference From Matched Samples in the 2008 U.S. National Elections, Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association 2009, http://www.asasrms.org/Proceedings/y2009/Files/303309.pdf. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz Bookmark. Indian Americans who are born in the United States are more likely to identify as Indian American (48 to 40 percent) and markedly less likely to identify as Indian (just 11 percent compared to 33 percent of foreign-born Indian Americans). The western state of Gujarat emerges as the most common home state, with 14 percent of respondents calling it their home, followed by Maharashtra (12 percent), Andhra Pradesh (10 percent), and Tamil Nadu (9 percent). The US Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks millions of people every year detailed questions about their social, economic, and demographic situations. Christians, whose views are represented in the bottom two horizontal bars of figure 22, hold roughly similar attitudes toward both Hindus and Muslims. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Immigration will continue to shape our communities for generations to come. First, the survey asks respondents to consider how discrimination against Indian Americans compares to discrimination directed toward other minority communities in the United States. Not Indian-Americans, simply Americans. 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