What is Asian Canadian?

The term “Asian Canadian” encompasses local communities whose origins stem from Asia (including East, South, Southeast and West Asia). It is important to note that not all such communities self-identify using this term, and there is no single “Asian” community in Canada. We use the term “Asian Canadian” to refer, therefore, not to a pre-existing category of people, but as a way of acknowledging the ways in which diverse migrant communities within Canada have forged meaningful, dynamic, and complex connections both in Canada and across the Pacific.