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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457855703321

Autore

Delgado Grace

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8371-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Disciplina

305.800972/1

Soggetti

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

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

Electronic books.

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

Mexico Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. The world of Chinese fronterizos (bord