CAAAV works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City.

Asians make up about 4.2 percent of the United States population, according to the 2000 Census. This translates to almost 12 million people who reported they were “Asian” or “Asian and at least one other race.” Among these, the largest ethnic groups were: Chinese, Filipino, Indians, and Vietnamese. However, many experts believe that these census figures undercount Asian communities due to language-access barriers for non-English speakers, lack of reach among undocumented immigrants and other reporting problems. Asians make up a large proportion of undocumented immigrants in... read more