Our Stories
An Introduction to South Asian America
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Chapter 3: Immigration after the Civil Rights Movement (1965– )

Explore this chapter:
• Post-1965 Immigration
• Families by Law
• The H-1B Visa
• Bangladeshi Immigration
• Bhutanese Refugees
• Indo-Caribbean Communities and Twice Migrants

Post-1965 Immigration
By Erika Lee
Page In the book For further exploration
97 See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
98 See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
100 "Madan Vasishta's First Days" Inset See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
101 "A Note to the Reader on the Terminology of Immigration" Inset Read the rest of Kate Ferguson's "There's No Such Thing as Low-Skilled Labor"in DW.
Families by Law
By Diditi Mitra
Page In the book For further exploration
105 "The Terminology of Immigration" Inset Read the rest of:
106 "Undocumented South Asian Americans" Inset Discover the rest of "Sherry Singh"'s oral history interview in SAADA's archival collections.
106 "Undocumented South Asian Americans" Inset Read the rest of Caritas Doha's "Documenting Dreams" series, published by Sakhi for South Asian Women.
107 Further Reading Read more about the impact of American family reunification immigration policy on Punjabi immigration in:
Diditi Mitra, Punjabi Immigrant Mobility in the United States: Adaptation through Race and Class.
The H-1B Visa
By Pawan Dhingra
Page In the book For further exploration
110 See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
111 "Changes to H-1B in 2017" Inset Read the rest of Anahita Mukherji's "'You live in the shadows': Anxious Indians in Silicon Valley consider options after H-1B reforms" in Scroll.in.
112 "The 'Model Minority' Myth" Inset Read the rest of Rakesh Kochhar's and Anthony Cilluffoin's "Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians" for Pew Research.
Bangladeshi Immigration
By Shweta Majumdar Adur
Page In the book For further exploration
116 See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
117 Further Reading Read more about Bangladeshi immigration in:
Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda, with Helen B. Marrow, The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965.
117 Further Reading Read more about Bangladeshi immigration in:
Nazli Kibria, "Diaspora Diversity: Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain and the United States," Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.
Bhutanese Refugees
By Retika Adhikari
Page In the book For further exploration
119 See the image and discover more from a SAADA Community Forum event at the Philadelphia History Museum in 2014.
121 See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
121 Further Reading Read more about Bhutanese refugees in:
Michael Hutt, Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan.
Indo-Caribbean Communities and Twice Migrants
By Nadia Misir
Page In the book For further exploration
124 "Queens Girls" Inset Read more from Odessa Despot's "Queens Girls" in TIDES.
125 "Bernard Despot's First Days" Inset See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
125 "Roshni Despot's First Days" Inset See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
126 Read the rest of Gaiutra Bahadur's interview with Max Bearak in the New York Times' India Ink.
127 "The State of Statelessness" Inset Read more from Dashini Jeyathurai's "The State of Statelessness" in TIDES.
127 Further Reading Read more about Indo-Caribbean communities in:
Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture.
127 Further Reading Read more about Indo-Caribbean communities in:
Elizabeth Jaikaran, "The Indo-Caribbean Experience: Now and Then," Brown Girl Magazine.
127 Further Reading Read more about Indo-Caribbean communities in New York City in:
Arun Lobo and Joseph Salvo, The Newest New Yorkers: Characteristics of the City's Foreign-born Population.
127 Further Reading Read more about undocumented Indo-Caribbean communities in:
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
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