Contents -- Foreword by Deepa Banerjee -- Preface -- Introduction: Situating Stories, An Introduction to South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest -- 1. "Finding Traces of Our Existence Here" Pre-World War Two South Asian Migrations -- 2. Routes and Roots: Stories of Departure and Arrival -- 3. Creating Professional Classes: Education and Training -- 4. All in a Day's Work: Employment, Migration, and Identity -- 5. Falling from the Tree: Family, Gender, and Generational Differences -- 6. Seeds take Root: Growing South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest -- Epilogue: Meditations on Methodologies -- Appendix 1. Interviews in the South Asian Oral History Project -- Appendix 2. Narrator Biographies -- Notes -- References -- Index.