Word: satbir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire family cannot do a U-turn in the middle of a mass migration. Satbir is enrolling in a computer course that will come in handy when she helps at the store her parents run in Hayward. Her father, back in India on a visit, testifies that America is a rich country, with many "gadgets" to make life more comfortable. "I would hate to look and behave like an American," says Satbir, even among Americans. Perhaps sometimes she will wear slacks or a skirt, instead of the traditional salwar kameez tunic. Beyond that, she knows little, but expects the best...
...waiting is longer than anticipated. When last Satbir heard, it would be at least two years before she could leave. Overwhelmed, the embassy is still processing visa requests from 1989. The waiting has also outlasted the terrorism, now seemingly under control again. She could stay now, if she wanted...
...fleeing a plague of anti-Sikh terrorism in Punjab and the poisonous sentiment that had seeped into other parts of India as well. "Why not join us?" Sikhs who had made it safely to New York and Toronto were asking relatives back home. That question was certainly weighing on Satbir Kang, when at age 21 she first applied for a visa...
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