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“On November 20, 1930 the Ulúa arrived in Limón, Costa Rica with four Chinese passengers carrying Costa Rican passports…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Benjamín Narváez. 

For further reading:
The Power and Pitfalls of Patronage: Chinese Immigrants in Costa Rica during the Era of Exclusion, 1897–1943Journal of Migration History 6 (2020) 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/