Book Review: Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Abstract

Explores the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discusses the move 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; and Sinophobia and the rise of postrevolutionary Mexican nationalism. Delgado is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. Bibliography; index.