Robert Chao Romero
Biographic Data
| ID | 707484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Chao Romero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Chao |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Migration as Grace”
This article proposes the constructive theological principle of “migration as grace”. Throughout Scripture, we see that migration is a locus in which God intervenes and acts graciously on behalf of migrants. Based upon the practice of “telogia en conjunto” (“communal theological reflection”) drawn from Latina/o theology, the essay brings the author’s own constructive theological proposal of “migration as grace” in conversation with other Latina/o…
Brown Theology as Public Theology
Chinese Cubans
Chinese Cubans is now the standard text on the history of the Chinese in Cuba. Utilizing a transnational and hemispheric approach, Kathleen López examines the history of Chinese immigration to Cuba from 1847 to the present. In many significant ways, she revises our understanding of Chinese migration to Cuba during the coolie trade and the subsequent waves of Chinese settlement that took place between 1902 and 1959. As her overarching aim, López s…
The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
El destierro de los Chinos
This essay examines Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage during the early twentieth century through the lens of Mexican popular culture. Comedy, poetry, cartoons, and musical recordings of the time portrayed these marriages as relationships of abuse, slavery, and neglect, and rejected the offspring of such unions as subhuman and unworthy of full inclusion in the Mexican national community. Marriage with prosperous Chinese merchants was scornfully…
Transnational Chinese Immigrant Smuggling to the United States via Mexico and Cuba, 1882–1916
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, Chinese immigrants circumvented the American exclusionary policy through the use of Mexico as a surreptitious gateway into the United States.1 The following is a case in point. On July 1 or July 2, 1911, Chinese immigrants Hom Hing, Ah Fong, Lee Lock, Sam Seu, and Leu Lin, accompanied by their Chinese-Mexican compatriot Joaquin Mon, drove by wagon from Ensenada to Carise, Lower California.…
El destierro de los Chinos
This essay examines Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage during the early twentieth century through the lens of Mexican popular culture. Comedy, poetry, cartoons, and musical recordings of the time portrayed these marriages as relationships of abuse, slavery, and neglect, and rejected the offspring of such unions as subhuman and unworthy of full inclusion in the Mexican national community. Marriage with prosperous Chinese merchants was scornfully…
Transnational Chinese Immigrant Smuggling to the United States via Mexico and Cuba, 1882–1916
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, Chinese immigrants circumvented the American exclusionary policy through the use of Mexico as a surreptitious gateway into the United States.1 The following is a case in point. On July 1 or July 2, 1911, Chinese immigrants Hom Hing, Ah Fong, Lee Lock, Sam Seu, and Leu Lin, accompanied by their Chinese-Mexican compatriot Joaquin Mon, drove by wagon from Ensenada to Carise, Lower California.…
Transnational Chinese Immigrant Smuggling to the United States via Mexico and Cuba, 1882–1916
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, Chinese immigrants circumvented the American exclusionary policy through the use of Mexico as a surreptitious gateway into the United States.1 The following is a case in point. On July 1 or July 2, 1911, Chinese immigrants Hom Hing, Ah Fong, Lee Lock, Sam Seu, and Leu Lin, accompanied by their Chinese-Mexican compatriot Joaquin Mon, drove by wagon from Ensenada to Carise, Lower California.…
El destierro de los Chinos
This essay examines Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage during the early twentieth century through the lens of Mexican popular culture. Comedy, poetry, cartoons, and musical recordings of the time portrayed these marriages as relationships of abuse, slavery, and neglect, and rejected the offspring of such unions as subhuman and unworthy of full inclusion in the Mexican national community. Marriage with prosperous Chinese merchants was scornfully…
The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
Chinese Cubans
Chinese Cubans is now the standard text on the history of the Chinese in Cuba. Utilizing a transnational and hemispheric approach, Kathleen López examines the history of Chinese immigration to Cuba from 1847 to the present. In many significant ways, she revises our understanding of Chinese migration to Cuba during the coolie trade and the subsequent waves of Chinese settlement that took place between 1902 and 1959. As her overarching aim, López s…
Brown Theology as Public Theology
“Migration as Grace”
This article proposes the constructive theological principle of “migration as grace”. Throughout Scripture, we see that migration is a locus in which God intervenes and acts graciously on behalf of migrants. Based upon the practice of “telogia en conjunto” (“communal theological reflection”) drawn from Latina/o theology, the essay brings the author’s own constructive theological proposal of “migration as grace” in conversation with other Latina/o…
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Chinese americans (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works)