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below Close(X) Browse Results For: An estimated 60,000 Chinese
entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic
community at the time. The Chinese in Mexico provides a social
history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in
the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era. Robert
Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as a new
land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this
legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to
Mexico in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and
in search of employment opportunities within Mexico's developing
economy. Romero details the development, after 1882, of the
"Chinese transnational commercial orbit," a network encompassing
China, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and
traveled by entrepreneurial Chi