Globalization and the emergence of Asian markets have fed an ongoing surge in outsourcing, encouraging (and, in some cases, compelling) many of Silicon Valley's ethnic Chinese to become what the overseas Chinese media refers to as "seagulls" --trans-Pacific workers who commute between the US and Asia.
如今在全球化浪潮以及亞洲市場興起的趨勢下，委外持續盛行，矽谷華裔被迫或因個人選擇，成為海外華文媒體所謂的「海鷗族」──足跡來往於美國與亞洲。