in the 1980s, a gang known as the dotbusters specifically targeted indian americans in jersey city, new jersey with violence and harassment. studies of racial discrimination, as well as stereotyping and scapegoating of indian americans have been conducted in recent years. in particular, racial discrimination against indian americans in the workplace has been correlated with indophobia due to the rise in outsourcing/offshoring, whereby indian americans are blamed for us companies offshoring white-collar labor to india. according to the offices of the congressional caucus on india, many indian americans are severely concerned of a backlash, though nothing serious has taken place. due to various socio-cultural reasons, implicit racial discrimination against indian americans largely go unreported by the indian american community.