Julia Maria SCHIAVONE Camacho. Chinese Mexicans

As the Chinese gain world recognition and power, a closer look at aspects of the Chinese diaspora has grown. Following the lead of Evelyn Hu-Dehart and Robert Chao Romero's pioneering studies on Chinese Mexicans, Julia María Schiavone Camacho and Grace Peña Delgado—two scholars whose early lives interacted with those of Chinese Mexicans—made them the focus of their studies. Delgado looks at how the Chinese—primarily from Guangdong province—migrated to Tucson, Arizona, established cross-border businesses, and, in many cases, settled in towns in Sonora, northern Mexico. This migration primarily occurred from the late nineteenth century until the Great Depression, when heightened anti-Chinese sentiment contributed to the expulsion of the Chinese from Sonora in response to the expulsion of the Mexicans from the United States. Camacho continues the story covering the period from 1910 to 1960 in Sonora and Sinaloa, providing a background and then looking closely at a few of the 3,500 Chinese Mexicans (primarily Chinese men), their Mexican wives or partners, and their children and the effects of the Mexican government's 1931 law expelling them from northern Mexico.

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