Making the Chinese Mexican : global migration, localism, and exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Grace Peña Delgado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delgado, Grace, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.

Chinese.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

History.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Ethnicity.

Mexican-American Border Region--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.

Mexico.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Navigating the interlocking global and local systems of migration that underlay Chinese borderlands communities, the author situates the often-paradoxical existence of these communities within the turbulence of exclusionary nationalisms.

As Delgado argues, the world of Chinese fronterizos (borderlanders) was shaped by the convergence of trans-Pacific networks and local arrangements. Against a backdrop of national unrest in Mexico and in the era of exclusionary immigration policies in the United States, Chinese fronterizos carved out vibrant, enduring communities that provided a buffer against virulent Sinophobia. This book challenges us to reexamine the complexities of nation making, identity formation, and the meaning of citizenship. It represents an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: nations, borders, and history

From global to local: Chinese migration networks into the Americas

Of kith and kin: Chinese and Mexican relationships in everyday meaning

Traversing the line: border crossers and alien smugglers

The first anti-Chinese campaign in the time of revolution

Myriad pathways and common bonds

Por la patria y por la raza (for the fatherland and for the race): Sinophobia and the rise of postrevolutionary Mexican nationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-295) and index.

ISBN:

9780804778145

0804778140

OCLC:

755213562