Browsing Tag: Immigrants

When undocumented immigrants move through government-run detention centers in the U.S., it can take months before they find out if they'll be deported or allowed to stay in the country. During this long wait, many become frustrated. And some turn to religion.

It was printed by a group called Immigration Watch Canada, based in B.C. The co-founder of the Vancouver-based group said he did not authorize the latest flyer. He said that the group agrees with the overall message but said the picture may have gone too far.

He decided he wanted to explore the visual and cultural juxtapositions and see how the new farmers were faring.

Though the diwan may seem exotic and strange to those unfamiliar with Sikhism or Indian customs, it’s actually something that’s been happening regularly in the North State for more than 100 years.

The Punjabi-American Festival, held each year on the last Sunday in May, is organized by the Punjabi-American Heritage Society, which was founded in 1993 to encourage cross-cultural understanding in the community.

Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of Indians over the past year have asked for asylum after paying as much as $35,000 to be smuggled halfway around the globe.

On October 4 & 5, 2013, a most unlikely group will converge upon Astoria for a rather unexpected celebration of a watershed event in the history of the Sikh Diaspora.

The first well-known record of Sikhs visiting the Pacific Northwest was in 1897 when Hong Kong-based Sikh soldiers from the British Empire traveled through Canada on the way home from Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in London.

It was 1913 when a group on Punjabi Sikh Indians in Astoria, working in Alderbrook and along the Columbia River, had an idea.

Recently, someone gifted me with a unique present – a 2013 calendar on the Sikhs of Africa.

All parties are often guilty of focusing too heavily on the negative aspects of immigration and multiculturalism but I believe British Sikhs should be recognised for not only for their great success in fully integrating themselves into British society but also for their extraordinary contributions.

Maisuradze said the unusual scene from that day months ago are etched in her memory, as she never imagined she'd have so many neighbours from a land so far away.

When Amar Sawhney (Ph.D. chemical engineering, ’92) arrived in Austin to pursue his graduate degree, he had $500 in cash that came from the sale of his mother’s jewelry and two suitcases —... He didn’t know anyone, didn’t have a place to live and wasn’t selected to work on any of the graduate projects he applied for.

Back in the 1980s when every Indian professional going to the US settled in big cities, one young doctor made a different choice. Dr Jasbir Kang,...

The stories of these early working-class migrants vividly contrast with our typical understanding of immigration. Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States.

He says "The first Sikhs who arrived in the Malay states in the 19th century were largely recruited by British officers who had worked in India".I am afraid to say is a little short of important historical facts.

“The children of these unions did not marry into that community, and so now they are dying off,” explained Karen Leonard, a professor of anthropology at the UC Irvine who authored a book on California’s Punjabi-Mexican population. “So their numbers are diminishing.”

Over the years, I have learned different ways of dealing with the challenges. All of these experiences have made me who I am today, I wouldn’t trade them for anything. I know Gurdaas will have similar experiences growing up, and I know it will make him stronger.

Stories of Sikh pioneers, their narratives though have aroused interest of academicians for several decades, California State school curriculum, however, remained uninformed about Punjabi Americans who have been contributing to the economic, political, social and cultural life of the State for 120 years.

The first African Sikh MP, whose family was among a very few who did not leave Uganda, and was considered a favourite of despot Idi Amin during 1970s, wants Punjabi farmers to cultivate land in the east African country that is now becoming a passage to entire east Africa after South Sudan became a new country recently.

Who would have thought that Sikhs would some day become the workers behind Italy's historic cheese industry?

In an age of technological ease, socially accepted incompetence, and a media-inflated sense of personal entitlement, inspiration to do business can be hard to find. After all, who needs a good work ethic when respect is demanded rather than earned? When mediocrity (or worse) isn’t the exception but the norm?...

And that's how I would get a nibble of that ‘Queen of Tropical Fruits', the mangosteen, or of its kin, the rambutan, lychee and longat. In that process, thanks to a daughter who is adventurous and explorative with anything to do with food, I discovered the achacha - and truly is it achacha, as they would say somewhere up north of the Vindhyas.

This article is part of community-wide centennial celebrations honoring the building of the National Historic Site Gur Sikh Temple (est. 1911). These centenary celebrations bring to the forefront the efforts of those first Sikh pioneers who helped to build our community.

Writer Danik Bhaskar reports from London, where he is currently travelling

Pyara Singh is on his annual visit home from Hamburg, Germany, where he works as a cook in a pizzeria.

The World Sikh Organization of Canada has a commendable battle record and a list of successes in their pursuit of Sikhs’ rights.

Both my grandfather and grandmother passed along the virtues of hard work, honesty, humility and a high regard for education to each of their children.

The art of living in two cultures - a book review by Prem Kishore.

The Komagata Maru arrived in 1914...