1. These roles are derived from a model presented by Stephen K. White, The Recent Work of Jurgen Habermas: Reason, Justice and Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 109. [BACK]

2. See Don T. Nakanishi, "Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research," Amerasia Journal 12, no. 2 (1985-86), p. 3. [BACK]

3. Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal, Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Western Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), p. 166. [BACK]

4. Manuel Gamio, Mexican Immigration to the United States: A Study of Human Migration and Adjustment (New York: Dover Publications, 1971), p. 84. For the relation between gender and migration, see Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Migration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). [BACK]

5. Fortune San Jose, special advertising section, 5 June 1989 edition of Fortune magazine. [BACK]

6. Ibid. [BACK]

7. Ibid. [BACK]

8. San Jose Mercury News, 26 November 1992. [BACK]

9. Roger Bartra, "Changes in Political Culture: The Crisis of Nationalism," in Wayne A. Cornelius, Judith Gentleman, and Peter H. Smith, eds., Mexico's Alternative Political Futures (San Diego: UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1989), pp. 55-85. [BACK]