Chinese Mexicans: transpacific migration and the search for a homeland, 1910-1960

At the turn of the twentieth century, a wave of Chinese men made their way to the northern Mexican border state of Sonora to work and live.

The ties - and families - these Mexicans and Chinese created led to the formation of a new cultural identity: Chinese Mexican.

During the tumult of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, anti-Chinese sentiment ultimately led to mass expulsion of these people.

This book follows the community through the mid-twentieth century, across borders and oceans, to show how they fought for their place as Mexicans, both in Mexico and abroad.