Strangers - at Home - The Asian and Asian American Professional Experience

From the Chinese Exclusion racism through unfounded stereotypes and micro- Act of 1882, which banned immigrants from China to aggressions, which are connected to large-scale the US, to the staged coup d’état by American busi- structural inequities in leadership representation, nessmen that led to the illegal occupation of the islands of career stall, and limited access to professional Hawai‘i to t. [...] To illustrate the complexities – Van Tran, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director of the Center for Urban of the A/AA/PI experience, we share findings across Research at the Graduate Center of the ethnicity, nationality, gender, generation, and sexual City University of New York orientation, to name a few areas. [...] p/2 Coqual The impact of COVID-19 and anti-Asian violence on A/AA/PI professionals The racialized impact of the COVID-19 pandemic damaged their mental health, and nearly half say has placed an immense strain on Asian and Asian it has negatively impacted their physical health to American professionals in and outside of work. [...] Melanesia: Comprises roughly 2,000 1.6 million islands spanning from the Arafu-ra Sea in Indonesian waters to the people identify as “Native Hawaiian and eastern side of the Pacific Ocean, and Other Pacific Islander” (alone or in combi- from the island of New Guinea in the north to New Caledonia and the sur- nation with one or more races) in the US rounding waters to the south14 today. [...] This is 0.4% of the population.16 Micronesia: Includes the Republic of Using aggregated data obscures the unique obstacles and the Marshall Islands, the Federated experiences of groups within the umbrella term of "AAPI," States of Micronesia, the Republic including the 1.6 million “Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific of Palau (Belau), the US territory of Islander” US population, those who trace thei.