Zetong Xiao is a Ph.D. student in Latin American History at the Complutense University of Madrid. His research project focuses on Chinese immigration to Central America, transnationalism and cultural citizenship. He is currently working on the history of Chinese in Costa Rica between 1900-2010, with an emphasis on the transformation of transnational connections and the construction of migrant networks. To introduce an interdisciplinary perspective, he tries to examine the identity construction and social integration of the Costa Rican Chinese by using ethnographic methods. He is also expanding his interest to food studies, particularly the cultural politics of food and foodscapes of Chinese Latin American cuisine.
Overseas Chinese, Costa Rica, Transnationalism, Food studies, Ethnography
