ASIA AM 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4, 5, 9: Family Values, Neocolonialism, Asian Americans
11 Aug 2018
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Part iii and iv notes (week 3 reading notes) Just getting a job is not enough: how indian americans navigate the workplace. This ch: places indian americans within their work context and explains challenges workers face and how they respond to those challenges. In 1965, most asians, including indians, who entered were professionals (doctors, engineers, university researchers) In 1970s, indian immigrants settled in cities and rural areas--taxi drivers, motel owners, store employees. 1/10 of doctors are indian and many work in it hubs. Rely on family and friends for exchange of info. Immigrant small business owners rely on coethnic kinship ties for money, skills, knowledge, labor. If you take amount of experience and level of education into consideration, asian. Americans are not being paid commensurate to their educational status. As it contract workers in large rms, they can be let go at any moment: white peers do not understand importance of family commitments.
