Abstract
In the twenty-first century, Indo American people, including Mexican-origin, are the nation’s fastest growing population—from 6.4 percent in 1980 to 15.1 percent in 2008 (US Bureau of the Census 2008a)¹—and are among the poorest and most socially marginalized racial/ethnic groups in the United States (Almaguer 1994, 212).² In the context of globalization and a declining quality of life for US society in general (Collins and Yeskel 2005), concerns about immigrants taking away jobs, draining public resources, and not assimilating, as voiced by the governor, have fueled nativistic immigration policies and social mistreatment that complicate migrants’ equal integration into