Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Situating Stories : An Introduction to South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest
  • "Finding Traces of Our Existence Here" : Pre-World War Two South Asian Migrations
  • Routes and Roots : Stories of Departure and Arrival
  • Creating Professional Classes : Education and Training
  • All in a Day's Work : Employment, Migration, and Identity
  • Falling from the Tree : Family, Gender, and Generational Differences
  • Seeds Take Root : Growing South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest
  • Epilogue: Meditations on Methodologies
  • Appendix I: Interviews in the South Asian Oral History Project
  • Appendix II: Narrator Biographies