Category: Recent Publications

Recent publications by faculty, students, and alumni.

Cristine Khan – On Anti-Blackness in the Indo-Caribbean Community

Posted on July 25, 2020 by - Others, Recent Publications

Cristine Khan wrote a recent piece in Medium titled “On Anti-Blackness in the Indo-Caribbean Community”

In light of all the current action happening around the heinous murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and many others, it is more pressing now than ever that all communities of color hold themselves accountable in supporting black communities. We must all recognize and challenge anti-black sentiment rampant in immigrant communities. As a second-generation American who grew up in a largely Indo-Guyanese household, and as a current educator and researcher on migration and the Indo-Caribbean community, I want to share my perspective on anti-blackness in this community in hopes of creating more accountable, socially-conscious action to stand in solidarity and support black people in this moment and beyond.

When I was growing up in Hollis, Queens, my late-grandpa used to tell my cousins and me to avoid the apartment building at the corner of the block because of the “black kids.” To this day, everyone laughs at how when I was about seven-years-old, after being angry at my sister, I hid her school clothes in the front garden and blamed it on the black kids. I remember feeling so guilty for lying, but okay with the fact that I blamed it on the kids who were already so degraded in my family’s eyes. I did not realize how this experience shaped me until much later when I was given the tools of critical thought to reflect on this.

Read more:  https://medium.com/@cskhan91/on-anti-blackness-in-the-indo-caribbean-community-68bb9f052765

Daeshin Hayden Ju, Karen Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie – Ethnic and generational differences in partnership patterns among Asians in the United States

Posted on July 25, 2020 by - Articles, Recent Publications

Daeshin Hayden Ju, Karen Okigbo, Sejung Sage Yim, and Jessica Halliday Hardie (Faculty) 

Co-published an article titled “Ethnic and generational differences in partnership patterns among Asians in the United States” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (online: June 2020)

ABSTRACT

Despite extensive research on the changes in partnership formation patterns in the United States over the past few decades, we know relatively little about how Asians are approaching marriage and cohabitation in early adulthood. Using the 2014–2018 American Community Survey, we examine whether Asians are delaying marriage and whether their postponement of marriage is offset by a rise in cohabitation. When doing so, we pay close attention to variations by ethnicity and immigrant generational status. We find that there is a substantial generational decline in marriage among Asians, accompanied by a relatively small increase in cohabitation. Thus, it is likely that 1.5-generation and U.S.-born Asians are waiting longer to enter coresidential partnerships than Asians who immigrated to the U.S. after age 12 and U.S.-born whites. Also, there are ethnic variations: cohabitation is rare among Indians whereas it is more common for Japanese and Filipino/as. The distinct patterns of 1.5-generation and U.S.-born Asians suggest that they are selectively acculturating. Overall, our findings demonstrate that Asians should not be treated as a monolithic group when studying their demographic and social patterns.