Abstract

Since the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the entry of South Asians seeking citizenship into the United States has continued unabated, first predominantly from India, but now also from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Their presence together has become increasingly impo1iant in medicine in general and in radiology in particular. The prevalence of South Asians among American radiologists is assessed by our analysis of the membership panel of image interpreters of One Call Medical, a broker of CT and MRI for workers compensation cases, which encompasses more than 19,000 radiologists. From that list, by analysis of Hindu surnames, Americans of Indian nativity and ancestry constitutes 4.8% of all members. A parallel analysis of Americans having Muslim surnames common in South Asia, including those with familial ties to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, yielded another 2.3%. Therefore, collectively South Asians make up 7.1% of all radiologists in this group, which includes nearly half of all American radiologists. Hence, the percentage of South Asians as radiologists in the United States now far exceeds their percentage in the general American population.

Highlights

  • The passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 initiated the flow of South Asians to the United States [1]

  • The sum of the number of Indian-Americans born in India and the number of Indian-Americans born in the united states was 570,000 in 1990 [5]

  • The increase was occasioned primarily by the influx of immigrants from the subcontinent who typically were educated in home country, but came to the United States for either work or further training, and stayed to participate first as permanent residents, and later as citizens functioning as productive members of American society

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Introduction

The passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 initiated the flow of South Asians to the United States [1]. Today the ethnic South Asian community encompasses immigrants and their offspring from India, and increasing numbers of individuals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and their descendants.

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