Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
Fredy González
Abstract
Threatened by the violence of the anti-Chinese campaigns, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China as a way to safeguard their presence in the country. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which these transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenged traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood. From celebrating the end of the Second World War alongside Mexican neighbors, to carrying out an annual community pilgrimage to the Basílica de Guadalupe, Chinese Mexicans came from out of the shadows and sought to refute longstanding car ... More
Keywords: Chinese diaspora, homeland politics, immigration, modern Mexico, Guomindang
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520290198 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2018 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520290198.001.0001 |
