
Published online:
20 June 2013
Published in print:
07 March 2012
Online ISBN:
9780804783712
Print ISBN:
9780804778145
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The Chinese Invasion from Mexico The Chinese Invasion from Mexico
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Overland and Overseas in the United States Overland and Overseas in the United States
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A Nest of Corruption: Chinese Smugglers and the Underground Railroad A Nest of Corruption: Chinese Smugglers and the Underground Railroad
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Sonoran Chinese and the Future of Immigration to Mexico Sonoran Chinese and the Future of Immigration to Mexico
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Chapter
3 Traversing the Line: Border Crossers and Alien Smugglers
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Pages
73–103
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Published:March 2012
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Delgado, Grace, 'Traversing the Line: Border Crossers and Alien Smugglers', Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Redwood City, CA , 2012; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 20 June 2013), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804778145.003.0004, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter discusses inconsistencies of border enforcement at the southern U.S. border and the way in which Chinese smugglers blazed illegal pathways across the Arizona and California lines. The backdoor route was so successful that it spurred American politicians to seek a diplomatic solution to end illegal entry of Chinese at the country's northern and southern borders, although Canada was more inclined than Mexico to accommodate American requests. By the turn of the twentieth century, enforcing Chinese exclusion laws remapped the U.S.–Mexico borderlands on the basis of a new sense of territoriality.
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