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
Summary
This book examines 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
