Chinese Women in Mexico City’s Popular Markets: Building Trust Between Guanxi and Comadrazgo

Introduction Xialing is sitting in the middle of her one-square-meter removable stand on the busy street leading to Metro San Cosme in Mexico City. While we talk, she attends to the passing clients of the commercial corridor, one of the city’s many locations of the popular economy. Xialing is a 45-year-old woman from Taishan, in Guangdong province in China, and she arrived in Mexico in 2002. Her husband and their two young children joined her five years later; at the time of our interview, th...