Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Reshma Saujani" in Portuguese language version.
Saujani's bid has all the ingredients of a weak opponent beating a stronger one scenario. The daughter of Gujarati immigrants, Saujani's story embodies the promise of the American Dream. Her parents came to the US as political refugees after Idi Amin expelled Indians from Uganda in the 1970s. A qualified mechanical engineer, Saujani's father found work in a machine shop... Living as one of the first Indian families in suburban Chicago, Saujani faced discrimination. But as a gutsy freshman at the local public high school, Saujani started PRISM — the Prejudice Reduction Interested Students Movement. She said "it was a defining moment" in her life that sparked her commitment to community activism
Reshma Saujani, a candidate for the position of public advocate of the City of New York, is the descendant of Indian immigrants – but with an unusual family history. Saujani, who was born in Illinois, is the daughter of Gujarati parents who were expelled from the East African nation of Uganda by then-dictator Idi Amin in 1972...The so-called "Ugandan Asians" have since carved out their own particular destinies over the past four decades in India itself, Great Britain, Europe, Canada, Australia, the United States and elsewhere as one of the most well-educated and prosperous groups of refugees that world has ever seen.
