RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 70
OP 92
DO 10.7758/RSF.2021.7.2.04
VO 7
IS 2
A1 Wong, Janelle
A1 Shah, Sono
YR 2021
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/7/2/70.abstract
AB Increased diversity has accompanied dramatic demographic growth of the Asian American population in recent years. If the common characteristic of Asian Americans is a diversity of origins, languages, resources, and cultural traits, what holds this group together, particularly in the political sphere? The model minority stereotype suggests that Asian Americans might converge around education policies. That most Asian Americans are foreign born and the tenacious power of attendant “forever foreigner” tropes suggest that immigration issues might be the basis for a shared political agenda. Analysis of the 2016 National Asian American Survey, however, shows surprising political consensus within the Asian American population outside the policy realms of education and immigration. In other policy issues, particularly those involving the government’s role, important points of convergence among these groups on certain public policies are clear. Political differences within the Asian American community are between those who are progressive and those who are even more so.