Karthick Ramakrishnan

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Karthick Ramakrishnan
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Subramanian Karthick Ramakrishnan, typically published as S. Karthick Ramakrishnan or Karthick Ramakrishnan, is an American political scientist, currently a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a founder of AAPI Data and the UC Riverside Center for Social Innovation, and has been the Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy. He studies the political behavior and engagement of immigrants to the United States, and manages projects to gather data about minority groups in America.

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Ramakrishnan has a BA in international relations from Brown University, and a PhD in politics from Princeton University. [1]

Ramakrishnan has written or edited seven books, including Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States (2020). He was the solo author of Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation (2005), which Pei-te Lien called "an unprecedented effort systematically to study political participation by immigrants and their offspring, across generations and major racial and national-origin groups". [2] He has also published articles on topics like the integration of immigrants into American political society and public opinion regarding immigration in venues like Perspectives on Politics [3] and the International Migration Review . [4]

Ramakrishnan has founded and directed multiple projects related to data acquisition on minority groups in the US, including the National Asian American Survey, [5] the AAPI Data project to collect information about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the US, [6] and the Inland Empire 2020 Census Complete Count Committee, an effort in San Bernardino County and Riverside County to raise awareness and conduct outreach to hard-to-count populations by the US Census. [7] Ramakrishnan was also the founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. [8]

Ramakrishnan's work has regularly been quoted, or had his work cited, in news outlets like NBC, [9] Vox , [10] the Los Angeles Times , [11] The New York Times , [12] and The Washington Post . [13] He has also published articles in The Washington Post [14] and CNN. [15] [16] In 2018, Ramakrishnan was named a member of the Frederick Douglass 200, [17] a project by American University and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives to select "200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass". [18]

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References

  1. ↑ "Karthick Ramakrishnan". Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 Lien, Pei-te (May 2006). "Review Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation". The Journal of Politics. 68 (2): 482⁠–482. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00420_17.x.
  3. ↑ Merolla, Jennifer; Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick; Haynes, Chris (18 September 2013). ""Illegal," "Undocumented," or "Unauthorized": Equivalency Frames, Issue Frames, and Public Opinion on Immigration". Perspectives on Politics. 11 (3): 789–807. doi:10.1017/S1537592713002077.
  4. 1 2 Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick; Espenshade, Thomas J. (1 September 2001). "Immigrant Incorporation and Political Participation in the United States". International Migration Review. 35 (3): 870–909. doi:10.1111/j.1747-7379.2001.tb00044.x.
  5. ↑ "National Asian American Survey". National Asian American Survey. 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "AAPI Data People". AAPI Data. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Committee Breakdown". Inland Empire Census Complete Count Committee. 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  8. ↑ Ramakrishnan, Karthick (March 2016). "Editor's Introduction". Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 1 (1): 1–4. doi: 10.1017/rep.2016.2 .
  9. ↑ Yam, Kimmy (2 January 2020). "Andrew Yang now leading in Asian American donations among Democratic candidates". NBC News. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  10. ↑ Zhou, Li (14 January 2020). "The January Democratic debate, like the slate of Oscar nominees, will be very, very white". Vox. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  11. ↑ Shyong, Frank (7 October 2019). "Andrew Yang faces his critics in the Asian American community". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  12. ↑ Cowan, Jill (20 November 2019). "A closer look at Fresno's Hmong community". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  13. ↑ Scott, Eugene (24 September 2019). "What does Trump get out of appearing with Modi and appealing to Indian Americans — a group that largely disapproves of him?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  14. ↑ Colbern, Allan; Haynes, Chris; Merolla, Jennifer L.; Ramakrishnan, Karthick (25 September 2019). "What Americans really think about California's auto emissions waiver — and what could change their minds". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  15. ↑ Ramakrishnan, Karthick (18 December 2019). "Any path to Democratic victory runs through this part of California". CNN. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  16. ↑ Ramakrishnan, Karthick (16 July 2019). "What happened when they told me, 'go back to your country'". CNN. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  17. 1 2 Hagen, Ryan (14 September 2018). "UC Riverside professor joins Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey on 'Frederick Douglass 200' list". The Press-Enterprise. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  18. ↑ "The Frederick Douglass 200". The Guardian. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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