The first South-South migration towards Republican Peru: Rethinking the first wave of Chinese migration to Peru (1849-1874)

• Autores: Benate, Piero, Arrué, Marcelo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33536
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/33536
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: South-South migration; Chinese immigration; World-system; Indentured labor; Subalternity; 19th century; Migración Sur-Sur; Inmigración china; Sistema- mundo; Servidumbre laboral; Subalternidad; Siglo XIX

This article analyzes the first wave of Chinese immigration to Peru (1849-1874) as a South-South migration in the 19th century that exemplifies transformations in the world-system, linked to new labor systems and capitalist modernization in the industrial core of the global North. Factors of expulsion in China and attraction in Peru are identified, as well as the establishment of servitude as a transformation of the labor market. These migrants played a role in the export of commodities to the global North, while being subalternized historical subjects, with agency and heterogeneity in their experiences in Peru.