#immigration-history

#immigration-history

Another notable immigrant community that has enriched London's culture hails from India, with records of immigration dating back to the 1600s and a large influx throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, from the first British Indian MP Dadabhai Naoroji, elected in 1892, to the British-Indian army, a 2.5 million-strong force of volunteers that fought during WW2. Not to mention the chefs and restaurants that have shaped the capital's culinary scene, from the family-run spots on Brick Lane to Mayfair's Punjabi restaurant Ambassador's Clubhouse.

This article introduces a new NPQ series titled The New Asian Diaspora Media: Defending Democracy Locally and Globally. Co-produced with Kavitha Rajagopalan, who directs a program on community journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY), this series highlights stories of how different Asian American communities are using grassroots digital media to meet their communities' needs for trustworthy in-language information amid a media environment distorted by rampant disinformation.

In places like Torrance and Gardena, you have the development and preservation of Japanese American food - it [has] layers of history and struggle, but food ultimately being a source of comfort and identity.

"Embarking on this journey was an act of unparalleled bravery. These were true pioneers," says Eduardo Dib, emphasizing the courage of early immigrants.

The poems carved into the walls of the detention center on Angel Island seemed like the perfect vehicle to explore the Chinese immigrant experience.