Friday, February 5, 2016

Exploring the Pakistani Americans of California

The Californian Pakistani-American diaspora of California is very interesting as it is diverse. There is a big difference between the Pakistani-American diaspora in the Bay Area for example versus the Pakistani-American community in Sacramento. For starters, those who are in the Bay Area are more educated in the sense of they are more likely to obtain higher education and come from urban cities of Pakistan such as Lahore and Karachi or Islamabad whereas the Sacramento community contains people more from village areas such as Okara, Gujrat, or even smaller cities like Faisalabad (formerly called Lyalpur).  When I mentioned this, it was pointed out to me that there could be two enclaves coming from the same place but their method of migration and their culture could be different although the push factor and pull factor could very well be the same.


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