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The Authors
YEN LE ESPIRITU, professor of ethnic studies and sociology at the Univer-
sity of California, San Diego, has written on gender, ethnicity, immigration, and
race relations. She is the author of Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Insti-
tutions and Identities, Filipino American Lives, and Asian American Women and
Men: Labor, Laws, and Love. She is currently serving as the president of the
Association of Asian American Studies.

PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO teaches in the Department of Sociol-

ogy at the University of Southern California. She is author of Gendered Transi-
tions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (1994); coeditor, with Maxine Baca
Zinn and Michael Messner, of Through the Prism of Difference: Readings on
Sex and Gender (1997); and coeditor, with Mary Romero and Vilma Ortiz, of
Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. (1997).
She is currently writing a book manuscript about paid domestic work in Los
Angeles.

PREMA KURIEN is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at

the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the
reformulation of religion and ethnicity by Indian migrants as a consequence of
international migration. Her earlier research examined the different patterns of
change manifested by three religio-ethnic sending communities in Kerala,
India, as a consequence of large-scale temporary migration to countries in the
Middle East. Parts of this research have been published in Theory and Society
and Development and Change, and she is completing a book manuscript based
on this study. Her current work looks at religion, ethnicity, and politics among
Indian immigrants in the United States; two forthcoming publications in edited
volumes discuss this research.

SARAH J. MAHLER is an associate professor of anthropology at Florida

International University in Miami. Her research and publications focus primar-
ily on Latin American and Caribbean migration to the United States and the
development of transnational ties between migrants and their home communi-
ties. Among her publications are American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the
Margins (1995) and Salvadorans in Suburbia: Symbiosis and Conflict (1995).

CECILIA MENJÍVAR, a sociologist, teaches in the School of Justice Studies

at Arizona State University. Her interests in the area of refugee and immigration
studies include social networks, family, gender relations, and the church and
religiosity. She has conducted research among Salvadorans and Guatemalans in
California and Washington, D.C. She is also interested in development issues

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and has carried out fieldwork to study women’s networks and community in
Guatemala.

PATRICIA R. PESSAR is an associate professor of American studies and

anthropology at Yale University. She is also the director of Yale’s Global Migra-
tion Project. Her publications on international migration include When Borders
Don’t Divide: Labor Migration Move in the Americas (1988); Fronteras Perme-
ables (1991); Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration (1991,
coauthored with Sherri Grasmuck); A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the
United States (1995); and Caribbean Circuits: New Directions in the Study of
Caribbean Migration (1997). She is completing a book with historian Gil
Joseph on resistance in rural Latin America, titled When Still Waters Crest With
Blood: Rethinking Rural Protest and Accommodation in Latin America.

JAMES A. TYNER received his doctorate in geography in 1995 from the Uni-
versity of Southern California. He is an assistant professor in the geography
department at Kent State University. His research interests are in migration,
labor, gender, and Southeast Asia.

ABEL VALENZUELA, JR., is an assistant professor at the University of Cali-

fornia, Los Angeles (UCLA), César E. Chávez Center. He also holds a joint
appointment in the Department of Urban Planning in the School of Public Policy
and Social Research. He serves as associate director of the Center for the Study
of Urban Poverty (ISSR), also at UCLA. His primary research interests include
immigration, urban poverty, inequality, and labor markets. He earned his Ph.D.
in urban and regional studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1993.