{"id":5256,"date":"2024-12-05T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abara2.wpenginepowered.com\/fronterizas-fuertes-herlinda-chew\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:46:53","slug":"fronterizas-fuertes-herlinda-chew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abara.org\/es\/fronterizas-fuertes-herlinda-chew\/","title":{"rendered":"Fronterizas Fuertes: Herlinda Chew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En la frontera entre M\u00e9xico y Estados Unidos, entre El Paso y Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, se producen casi a diario debates y discusiones sobre inmigraci\u00f3n, as\u00ed como desajustes a menudo dolorosos. Epicentro de duras intervenciones del gobierno estatal, como alambradas de concertina y boyas flotantes (<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/abara1.wpenginepowered.comnew-email-series-from-abara-border-stories-17632346\">v\u00e9ase la edici\u00f3n de la semana pasada de Historias fronterizas en relaci\u00f3n con la SB 4<\/a>), <strong>est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed, en nuestro propio patio trasero<\/strong>..<\/p>\n<p>Es <strong>Mes de la Historia de la Mujer<\/strong>Pero retrocedamos en el tiempo hasta El Paso\/Ju\u00e1rez, a finales del siglo XIX y despu\u00e9s de la Revoluci\u00f3n Mexicana de 1917, donde encontraremos otro acalorado debate sobre la inmigraci\u00f3n entre Estados Unidos y M\u00e9xico y tambi\u00e9n a una persona que se adelant\u00f3 a su tiempo en la defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes a vivir en Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Te presento a Herlinda Wong Chew.<\/strong> (extremo derecho de la foto)<\/p>\n<p>Nacida en 1894 en Guadalajara, Chew (de soltera Wong) fue una inmigrante mexicana de ascendencia china, empresaria y una de las primeras defensoras de los inmigrantes chinos y mexicanos en El Paso. En 1914, se hab\u00eda casado con un inmigrante chino en M\u00e9xico llamado Antonio Chew, y juntos hab\u00edan abierto un negocio de comestibles en Ju\u00e1rez. La Revoluci\u00f3n Mexicana trajo consigo una intensa persecuci\u00f3n contra los chinos en M\u00e9xico, incluida una brutal matanza de chinos en Torre\u00f3n en 1911. Al enterarse de las amenazas de violencia en Ju\u00e1rez, los Chew solicitaron asilo temporal en El Paso. Sorprendentemente, luego ayudaron a unas 200 familias chinas en este \u00e9xodo.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque pronto fueron devueltos a Ju\u00e1rez, Herlinda (que s\u00f3lo hab\u00eda cursado sexto de primaria) empez\u00f3 a estudiar la ley de inmigraci\u00f3n estadounidense. A pesar de las restricciones impuestas por la Ley de Exclusi\u00f3n de Chinos (1882), encontr\u00f3 una excepci\u00f3n poco conocida a la ley, que permit\u00eda <em>comerciantes<\/em> chinos el derecho a inmigrar. Esa fue la clave para que los Chews vivieran permanentemente en El Paso y, en 1930, fueran propietarios de cuatro tiendas de comestibles.<\/p>\n<p>Chew utiliz\u00f3 su conocimiento de la ley de inmigraci\u00f3n -y tambi\u00e9n el dolor que pueden provocar las denegaciones- para ayudar a otras personas que se enfrentaban a crisis de inmigraci\u00f3n. En una ocasi\u00f3n, ayud\u00f3 a mujeres mexicanas que hab\u00edan sido deportadas de M\u00e9xico con sus maridos chinos para vivir en China, donde el gobierno chino no reconoc\u00eda sus matrimonios. Viaj\u00f3 varias veces a China para ayudar a las mujeres a regresar a M\u00e9xico. Tambi\u00e9n ayud\u00f3 a chinos residentes en M\u00e9xico que quer\u00edan regresar a China.<\/p>\n<p>Chew se convirti\u00f3 en una conocida defensora de la educaci\u00f3n en El Paso. Aprendi\u00f3 durante toda su vida (sobre todo de forma autodidacta) y hablaba espa\u00f1ol, ingl\u00e9s, franc\u00e9s y los dialectos chinos canton\u00e9s y mandar\u00edn. Uno s\u00f3lo puede imaginar las monta\u00f1as de prejuicios y racismo que super\u00f3, no a trav\u00e9s de la ira, sino aprendiendo leyes y utilizando el conocimiento para ejercer el poder.<\/p>\n<p>Por ello, es una persona digna de estudio y emulaci\u00f3n, ya que las batallas por la inmigraci\u00f3n contin\u00faan hasta nuestros d\u00edas. Ella puede darnos a todos el valor para luchar inteligente y furtivamente por los derechos de los inmigrantes en El Paso, Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez y en todo el mundo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Escrito por Lyn McKinley, Subvenciones y Desarrollo, Abara<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los debates y discusiones sobre inmigraci\u00f3n, as\u00ed como las dislocaciones a menudo dolorosas, ocurren casi todos los d\u00edas en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y M\u00e9xico, entre El Paso y Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez. El epicentro de las duras intervenciones del gobierno estatal, como las concertinas y las boyas flotantes (v\u00e9ase la edici\u00f3n de la semana pasada de Historias de la frontera en relaci\u00f3n con la ley SB 4), est\u00e1 aqu\u00ed, en nuestro propio patio trasero.... 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