{"id":60,"date":"2016-11-14T02:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T01:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/migrationstolatinamerica\/?p=60"},"modified":"2016-11-14T02:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T01:58:02","slug":"week-5-asian-diasporas-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/migrationstolatinamerica\/2016\/11\/14\/week-5-asian-diasporas-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 – Asian Diasporas in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian Diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Historical Overview<\/p>\n

The presence of different Asian communities in Latin America is a long one, yet a much forgotten or omitted one from history.<\/p>\n

It was however when Acapulco and Manila connected in 1565 that globalization truly began. With it, global migration also began in to slowly take off (it wasn\u2019t till the 1850s when migration truly became mass migration).<\/p>\n

When speaking of migration from Asia to Latin America, Chinese and Japanese migration stands out. Although the Japanese did migrate to a number of countries within the region, it was the Chinese migration that reached every country in Latin America, and the Americas as a whole.<\/p>\n

Mass migrations to Latin America began in 1847 with migration to Cuba (and Peru in 1849) when the \u201cTrata Amarilla\u201d or Yellow Trade began with migration from southern China\u2019s Guangdong Province through Hong Kong (later Macao). The \u201cCoolie Trade\u201d as it also became known became infamous throughout Asia and the Americas for the violence that ensued during these two decades.<\/p>\n

What this introduction argues is that migration to and from Latin America is a global, and not just a trans-Atlantic phenomenon; one that we must be aware of since the authors rightly argue that European, Indigenous, and Africa migrations have been the focus of human mobility within this continent.<\/p>\n

Something that will become clearer throughout further readings is the exclusionary policies, and antichinismo <\/em>throughout the entire corridor that is the Americas. There is not one country that did not at one tome or another that passed laws preventing Chinese migration.<\/p>\n

This article presents a short overview of migration from Asia. However, two things that I think are important to take from it are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The links between Asia and Latin America are long and enduring; an aspect of migration that if often overshadowed by trans-Atlantic migrations. This overshadowing places migration as a regional, rather than global the global phenomenon that is it. At the same time, it takes away focus from the fact that when we look at Latin America, the continent has been shaped and reshaped by migrations, cultures, politics, and social aspects from within the continent, as well as by trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific ideas, values, and mores that have crisscrossed throughout the history linking these continents.<\/li>\n
  2. This point is probably the most important in my mind. The \u2018invisibility\u2019 of Asian migration to and from Latin America, as well as the lack of discourse and\/or research on these mobilities. Migration from Asia is treated t times as if it is a new phenomenon beginning with China\u2019s expansion across the globe; however, as we\u2019ve read, migration from Asia is centuries old.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As we go deeper into migration from Asia in the next few weeks, we will dive into tis link so that we can get a better understanding on Latin America\u2019s role within global migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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