CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Tampico, Chinese Immigration To Mexico
15 May 2016
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The traditional chicano identity involves the acknowledgment of indigenous and european heritage within the mexican culture. This idea limits the perception of mexicans because asians, lebanese, blacks, and jews. Pablo chee asian merchant who settled in chiapas, mexico and married a. He later had a child and moved his family to china. Pablo chee"s immigration to mexico was part of a larger migration of more than 60,000 chinese immigrants to mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following the passage of the chinese exclusion act if 1882 barring the legal immigration of chinese male laborers to the united. States, chinese immigrants flocked to mexico in search of economic opportunity. Chinese went to mexico for jobs and to get smuggled into the u. s. The chinese invented undocumented immigrants smuggling from mexico. They did this to circumvent the chinese exclusion laws of the united states. As a means of resisting and circumventing the chinese laws, entrepreneurial.
