Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940

Name: Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
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ISBN: 9780816514601

ISBN-10: 0816514607

ISBN-13: 9780816514601

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Robert Chao Romero

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An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. The Chinese in Mexico provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era.Robert Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as a new land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to Mexico in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and in search of employment opportunities within Mexico's…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.968



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration of Chinese Names



Introduction: Chinese Immigration to Mexico and the Transnational Commercial Orbit



The Dragon in Big Lusong: Chinese Immigration to Mexico and the Global Chinese Diaspora



Transnational Journeys: Transnational Contract Labor Recruitment, Smuggling, and Familial Chain Migration



Gender, Interracial Marriage, and Transnational Families



Employment and Community: Coolies, Merchants, and the Tong Wars



Mexican Sinophobia and the Anti-Chinese Campaigns



Conclusion: Re-envisioning Mestizaje and "Asian-Latino" Studies


Notes


Bibliography


Index