ABSTRACT
Just ten years ago, the interest in the Chinese Community of Peru was historical, sociological and anthropological. After retracing the conditions of the introduction of the first coolies (Stewart 1976), their role in the regional development as workers under contract in the haciendas (Macera 1977; Rodriguez 2009), then as immigrants integrated into the country’s economy (LausentHerrera 1996, 1997), researchers have tried to understand the mechanisms which formed the Chinese community of Peru and they have begun to compare its formation to that of other communities (Wong 1978; McKeown 2001; Lausent-Herrera 2009a, 2009b, 2011). Quite recently, faced with the arrival of a great number of new migrants, attention is now given to its fragility and to its future (Lausent-Herrera 2009b).
