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- Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live. The ties--and families--these Mexicans and Chinese created led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican. During the tumult of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, anti-Chinese sentiment ultimately led to mass expulsion of these people. Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho follows the community through the mid-twentieth century, across borders and oceans, to show how they fought for their place as Mexicans, both in Mexico and abroad.
Tracing transnational geography, Schiavone Camacho explores how these men and women developed a strong sense of Mexican national identity while living abroad--in the United States, briefly, and then in southeast Asia where they created a hybrid community and taught their children about the Mexican homeland. Schiavone Camacho also addresses how Mexican women challenged their legal status after being stripped of Mexican citizenship because they married Chinese men. After repatriation in the 1930s-1960s, Chinese Mexican men and women, who had left Mexico with strong regional identities, now claimed national cultural belonging and Mexican identity in ways they had not before.
Tracing transnational geography, Schiavone Camacho explores how these men and women developed a strong sense of Mexican national identity while living abroad--in the United States, briefly, and then in southeast Asia where they created a hybrid community and taught their children about the Mexican homeland. Schiavone Camacho also addresses how Mexican women challenged their legal status after being stripped of Mexican citizenship because they married Chinese men. After repatriation in the 1930s-1960s, Chinese Mexican men and women, who had left Mexico with strong regional identities, now claimed national cultural belonging and Mexican identity in ways they had not before.
Table of Contents
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- Note on Names and Terms
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Part I: Chinese Settlement in Northwestern Mexico and Local Responses
- Part II: Chinese Removal
- Part III: Chinese Mexican Community Formation and Reinventing Mexican Citizenship Abroad
- Part IV: Finding the Way Back to the Homeland
- Conclusion
- pp. 174-178
- Bibliography
- pp. 203-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469601786
Related ISBN(s)
9780807835401, 9780807882597, 9781469664101
MARC Record
OCLC
830023206
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No