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.
Summary:
"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. 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."--pub. desc.
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