ABSTRACT
Asian Indians constitute one of the fastest-growing North American immigrant populations as well as one of the more affluent and well-educated sectors of American society (Daniels 1989, 1994; Helweg and Helweg 1990; Saran 1985). The 1997 United States Current Population Survey lists 748,000 foreign-born Indians (U.S. Census Bureau 1997), up from 450,000 in 1990 and 203,000 in 1980, and the 1996 Canadian census reports 590,150 people of South Asian origin, also with recent large increases (from 450,000 in 1991 and 350,000 in 1981).
