Forced Migration In The Spanish Pacific World: From Mexico To The Philippines, 1765-1811
by Eva Maria Mehl /
2016 / English / PDF
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Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in
the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and
recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria
Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and
streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines,
and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities
in Madrid and the colonial governments and populations of New Spain
and the Philippines in the late Bourbon era. Ultimately, forced
migration from Mexico City to Manila illustrates that the histories
of the Spanish Philippines and colonial Mexico have embraced and
shaped each other, that there existed a connectivity between
imperial processes in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, and that
a perspective of the Spanish empire centered on the Atlantic cannot
adequately reflect the historical importance of the richly textured
transpacific world.
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in
the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and
recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria
Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and
streets in central Mexico to Spanish outposts in the Philippines,
and traces relationships of power between the imperial authorities
in Madrid and the colonial governments and populations of New Spain
and the Philippines in the late Bourbon era. Ultimately, forced
migration from Mexico City to Manila illustrates that the histories
of the Spanish Philippines and colonial Mexico have embraced and
shaped each other, that there existed a connectivity between
imperial processes in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, and that
a perspective of the Spanish empire centered on the Atlantic cannot
adequately reflect the historical importance of the richly textured
transpacific world.
