Skip to main content

Diasporic Chinese across North America: Mi casa no es su casa

  • Chapter
Border Governance and the “Unruly” South
  • 49 Accesses

Abstract

Among many clichés about Mexico in the US mass media, the most famous one praises Mexican hospitality: Mi casa es su casa (my house is your house). On the other hand, in Mexico, there is a saying, not completely true but rather cruel, that goes: El muerto y el arrimado a los tres días apestan (after three days, dead people and visitors both stink). There is a strong tension between perceptions, actual behaviors, and culturally—politically biased migratory policies. The dominant Mexican identity congratulates itself about Mexico being a host that welcomes with open arms those who are in need of shelter; at least that is what happened with republicans fleeing Spain at the end of the 1930s as well as Argentinean and Chilean dictatorships in the 1970s. Only recently, in 2010, 440 Haitians similarly arrived in Veracruz, of course, for other reasons as well.1

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Bibliography

  • Archivo Histórico Genaro Estrada-Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico.

    Google Scholar 

  • Beltrán, Joaquín. Los ocho inmortales cruzan el mar: Chinos en Extremo Occidente. Barcelona, Cataluña: Bellaterra, 2003.

    Google Scholar 

  • Córdova, Arnaldo. La ideología de la revolución mexicana. La formation del nuevo régimen. México, DF: ERA, 1973.

    Google Scholar 

  • Díaz Covarrubias, Francisco. Viaje de la Comisión Astronómica Mexicana al Japón para observar el tránsito de Venus por el disco del Sol el 8 de diciembre de 1874. México, DF: Imprenta Políglota de C. Ramiro y Ponce de León, 1876.

    Google Scholar 

  • Durán, Esperanza. Guerra y revolución: Las grandes potencias y México, 1914–1918. México, DF: El Colegio de México, 1985.

    Google Scholar 

  • Duvall, Raymond, and Latha Varadarajan. “On the Practical Significance of Critical International Relations Theory.” Asian Journal of Political Science 11 (2003): 75–88.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Espinoza, José Ángel. ca. El problema chino en México. México: 1931.

    Google Scholar 

  • Estadísticas Históricas de México, 2009, vol. 1. Mexico, DF: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografìa, 2010.

    Google Scholar 

  • González Navarro, Moisés. “Xenofobia y xenofilia en la revolución Mexicana.” Historia Mexicana 18.72 (1969): 569–614.

    Google Scholar 

  • Guerra, François-Xavier. México del antiguo régimen a la revolución. México, DF: FCE, 1985.

    Google Scholar 

  • Haro, Francisco Javier, José Luis León, and Juan José Ramírez. México ante Asia, 1821–2010.De la política exterior evanescente a la sustentación de las relaciones exteriores. México, DF: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 2010.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. “Los chinos en Sonora, 1875 a 1930. La formación de una pequeña burguesía regional.” In Los inmigrantes en el mundo de los negocios, siglos XIX y XX, Rosa Maria Meyer and Delia Salazar (coordinadoras), 115–136. México, DF: INAH / Plaza y Valdés, 2003

    Google Scholar 

  • Izquierdo, José Jorge. El movimiento antichino en México (1871–1934). Problemas del racismo y el nacionalismo durante la Revolución Mexicana. México, DF: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1991.

    Google Scholar 

  • Katz, Friedrich. La guerra secreta en México. Europa, Estados Unidos y la revolución mexicana. México, DF: ERA, 1982.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kavalski, Emilian. “The Fifth Debate and the Emergence of Complex International Relations Theory: Notes on the Application of Complexity Theory to the Study of International Life.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20.3 (2007): 435–454.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1, Ch. 26, [1867] 2010. Many editions or www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-cl/ch26.htm.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.

    Google Scholar 

  • Puig, Juan. Entre el río Perla y el Nazis. La China decimonónica y sus braceros emigrantes, la colonia china de Torreón y la matanza de 1911. México, DF: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  • Putnam, Robert D. “Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games.” International Organization 42.3 (1988): 427–460.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rabadán Figueroa, Macrina. “Discurso vs. Realidad en las campañas en Sonora (1899–1932).” Secuencia 38 (May–August 1997): 77–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenau, James N. “The Theoretical Imperative: Unavoidable Explication.” Asian Journal of Political Science 11 (2003): 7–20.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • —. “Patterned Chaos in Global Life: Structure and Process in the Two Worlds of World Politics.” International Political Science Review 9.4 (1988): 327–364.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Salazar, Delia, coordinadora. Xenofobia y Xenofilia en la historia de México, siglos XIX y XX. México, DF: SEGOB-INM, INAH-DGE, 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schiavone-Camacho, Julia Maria. “Traversing Boundaries: Chinese, Mexicans, and Chinese-Mexicans in the Formation of Gender, Race, and Nation in the Twentieth-Century U.S.-Mexican Borderlands.” PhD diss., The University of Texas at El Paso, 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schmidth, Brian C. “Together Again: Reuniting Political Theory and International Relations Theory.” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 4.1 (2002): 115–140.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sierra, Justo. Obras completas VII. El exterior. México, DF: UNAM, [1909] 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, Hansen, and Lawrence Douglas. “El contrabando de chinos en la frontera de las Californias durante el Porfiriato (1876–1911).” Migraciones Internacionales 1.3 (2002): 5–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walt, Stephen M. “International Relations: One World, Many Theories.” Foreign Policy 110 (1998): 29–46.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yankelevich, Pablo. “Extranjeros indeseables en México (1911–1940). Una aproximación cuantitativa a la aplicación del artículo 33 constitucional.” Historia Mexicana 53.211 (2004): 693–743.

    Google Scholar 

  • http://english.peopledaily.com.

  • www.12.statcan.ca

  • www.ilstu.edu

  • www.inami.gob.mx.

  • www.irtheory.com

  • www.juridicas.unam.mx

  • www.sectur.gob.mx

Download references

Authors

Editor information

Imtiaz Hussain

Copyright information

© 2013 Imtiaz Hussain

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Navejas, F.H. (2013). Diasporic Chinese across North America: Mi casa no es su casa. In: Hussain, I. (eds) Border Governance and the “Unruly” South. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342614_5

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics