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Geographical Review July 1995, 85(3), pp. 335-348. Mexicali's Chinatown James R. Curtis ABSTRACT This article chronicles the circumstances that were pivotal to the establishment of a Chinese community in Mexicali, Mexico. The community is reconstructed as a place in 1925, when its population peaked. After assessing the dynamics of recent change and continuity the article concludes that Chinatown in Mexicali arose because of a particular set of intersecting local and external factors, including political, social, and economic considerations that operated largely between the first and third decades of the twentieth century. Keywords: Chinatown, Chinese immigrants, ethnicity, Mexicali, Mexico. DR. CURTIS is Associate Professor of Geography at California State University, Long Beach. To contact the author: Mail: Prof. James R. Curtis Department of Geography California State University -- Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90840 U.S.A. Phone: (310) 985-4977 (office) (310) 985-5431 (fax) Electronic mail: jrcurtis@csulb.edu Back to July 1995 Table of Contents