Josie Huang covers Asian American communities for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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Advocates for survivors of abuse say they are seeing more cases of gender-based violence, which they partly attribute to greater awareness of the problem among South Asians in the U.S. — a population rapidly growing because of immigration. Indian Americans who identify as single-race now "I mean, there's thousands of languages, thousands of religions and cultures that we can't put into this PSA, but we can at least put five," said Rajapaksa who herself speaks Sinhala.What the different forms of abuse have in common is that they are rooted in societal structures, such as patriarchy or an immigration system,"that almost allow this violence to occur," said Gunindu Abeysekera, who co-authored the report.
"It's getting to a point where we just tell people, 'You might need a new phone or you just have to go to a mechanic and see if there's an on your car,'" Rajapaksa said. "Come to the right place to get help and then break the silence and break the cycle of abuse," Rahman said.
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