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THE CHINESE IN MEXICO 1882-1940

THE CHINESE IN MEXICO 1882-1940 Paperback - 2011

by ROBERT CHAO ROMERO

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NEW ~ 254 pp. Illus. Maps & charts. Bibliography & index. A social history of Chinese immigration to Mexico. The study places their lives and the discrimination they faced in Mexico in transnational context. ENGLISH 15 oz.
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  • Title THE CHINESE IN MEXICO 1882-1940
  • Author ROBERT CHAO ROMERO
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS, TUCSON
  • Date 2011
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1000768
  • ISBN 9780816514601 / 0816514607
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Mexican
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexico - Race relations, Immigrants - Mexico - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011389997
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.004

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From the publisher

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 developing economy. Romero details the development, after 1882, of the "Chinese transnational commercial orbit," a network encompassing China, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and traveled by entrepreneurial Chinese pursuing commercial opportunities in human smuggling, labor contracting, wholesale merchandising, and small-scale trade.

Romero's study is based on a wide array of Mexican and U.S. archival sources. It draws from such quantitative and qualitative sources as oral histories, census records, consular reports, INS interviews, and legal documents. Two sources, used for the first time in this kind of study, provide a comprehensive sociological and historical window into the lives of Chinese immigrants in Mexico during these years: the Chinese Exclusion Act case files of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the 1930 Mexican municipal census manuscripts. From these documents, Romero crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism.

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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.

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Robert Chao Romero is an assistant professor in the Csar E. Chvez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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