{"id":4388,"date":"2010-01-07T22:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:51:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:51:43","slug":"crossing-boundaries-claiming-a-homeland-the-mexican-chinese-transpacific-journey-to-becoming-mexican-1910s-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lasa.international.pitt.edu\/members\/congress-papers\/lasa2009\/files\/SchiavoneCamachoJuliaMaria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association<br \/>\nRio de Janeiro, Brazil<br \/>\n2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/academics.utep.edu\/Default.aspx?tabid=54935\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Mar\u00eda Schiavone Camacho<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Texa, El Paso<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ram\u00f3n Lay Mazo, wrote to a prominent Mexican widow, Do\u00f1a Concepci\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez Viuda de Arag\u00f3n, in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Seeking her continued support for the Mexican Chinese repatriation cause, he conveyed the deep, devoted love Mexican women living in China felt for their nation, Mexico. When he asked Mexican women in China whether they wanted to move to other countries, they replied, \u201cNi que me den un palacio all\u00e1, prefiero M\u00e9xico, aunque vaya a vivir bajo un mesquite\u201d (\u201cNot even if they gave me a palace there, I prefer Mexico, even if I have to live under a mesquite\u201d). Disheartened by the Mexican government\u2019s disregard for them and their desperate situations, Ram\u00f3n tried to convince Mexican women to consider living elsewhere. He warned them that Mexico might not be the same as it once was and that it might be more difficult to survive in the communities where they had once lived. To this the women rejoined, \u201cAunque vayamos a escarbar camotes amargos a la sierra, queremos M\u00e9xico\u201d (\u201cEven if we have to dig for bitter sweet potatoes in the sierra, we want Mexico\u201d). The conditions, where in the nation they might live, and how long they might have to wait were no matter. They wanted to return to the Mexican homeland they had longed for since years past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/lasa.international.pitt.edu\/members\/congress-papers\/lasa2009\/files\/SchiavoneCamachoJuliaMaria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14 Julia Mar\u00eda Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ram\u00f3n Lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21,459,8,103,14,26,394],"tags":[221,1720,1729,20753],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-papers","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-china","tag-julia-maria-schiavone-camacho","tag-latin-american-studies-association","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}