{"id":18820,"date":"2014-03-27T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:11:15","slug":"immigration-communities-apr16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2014\/03\/27\/immigration-communities-apr16\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee &#038; BUCSA to Host Talk on Asian Immigrant Communities in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardee\/files\/2014\/03\/BUCSA_Event_Image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2014\/03\/BUCSA_Event_Image-420x300.png\" alt=\"BUCSA_Event_Image\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18822 alignright\" height=\"259\" width=\"364\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"bu.edu\/pardee\">Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future<\/a>, the <a href=\"bu.edu\/asain\/\">Boston University Center for the Study of Asia<\/a>, and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cas\/departments\/east-asian-interdisciplinary-studies\/\"> BU East Asian Studies Program<\/a> will cosponsor an April 16th talk titled &#8220;Indian Americans: The Life and Work of a New Immigrant Community &#8211; What can Chinese in America Learn?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The event, part of Boston University&#8217;s <em>China-India Comparative Talks Series,<\/em> will feature discussions by <a href=\"http:\/\/casi.sas.upenn.edu\/about\/people\/devesh\">Professor Devesh Kapur<\/a> (University of Pennsylvania) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/ye\/\">Professor Min Ye<\/a> (Boston University) on the success of Indian-Americans in pursuing the &#8220;American Dream&#8221; through high-skill occupations and entrepreneurship. The discussions will focus on the four major themes of immigration literature &#8211; selection, assimilation, entrepreneurship, and clustering &#8211; to advance understanding of characteristics of Indian-American communities that have contributed to this success and what insights Chinese immigrants in America can draw from to advance the well being of their own communities.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in the Kenmore Room at 1 Silber Way (9th Floor). For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2014\/03\/27\/event-indian-americans-the-life-and-work-of-a-new-immigrant-community-what-can-chinese-in-america-learn-041614\/\">Center for the Study of Asia Events Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, and the BU East Asian Studies Program will cosponsor an April 16th talk titled &#8220;Indian Americans: The Life and Work of a New Immigrant Community &#8211; What can Chinese in America Learn?&#8221;. The event, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5359,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18852,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}