@article{ref1,
title="Letter to the Editor: What do we mean by "Asian"?",
journal="Transcultural psychiatry",
year="2009",
author="Babbar, Jatinder",
volume="46",
number="3",
pages="531-535",
abstract="Systems of ethno-racial categorization have a long and varied history in different countries, their transformations often closely linked to changes in the socio-political landscape. In the United States the ethnic and racial classification system used by the federal government consists of five broad categories. In this article, I examine the problematic characteristics of the &quot;Asian&quot; category, a rubric that encompasses very disparate ethnic groups and nationalities. I suggest that the use of ethno-racial categories such as “Asian” in mental health research has a negative impact on the validity of findings: while research data is often collected from only a few of these ethnic groups, study results are, in effect generalized, and applied to the broad &quot;Asian&quot; category as a whole.However, before addressing these consequences of overly broad ethno-racial categories, it is important to briefly trace the origins of their current usage in the United States.<p />",
language="",
issn="1363-4615",
doi="10.1177/1363461509345382",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461509345382"
}