![]() India-born immigrants are now the second largest foreign-born group in the United States (after Mexicans). It was the largest source of new immigrants to America – larger than China (about 132,000) or Mexico (about 130,000). ![]() The authors, Sanjoy Chakravorty (Temple University), Devesh Kapur (University of Pennsylvania), and Nirvikar Singh (University of California, Santa Cruz), have researched the reasons behind the recent remarkable growth in the Indian-American population and describe how it is that people from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most-educated and highest-income group in the world’s most advanced nation.Īccording to statistics cited by the authors, there were 147,000 new immigrants from India to the U.S. The book’s title is drawn from the fact that “people of Indian origin” now make up a little over one percent of the American population. ![]() ![]() Their data and observations confirm what many experience as they encounter increasing numbers of Indian international students and IT workers. is unmatched in history by any immigrant group coming to any country in the world. In The Other One Percent: Indians in America, published late in 2016, three Indian American professors make a case that the immigration of Indians to the U.S. ![]()
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