Mass capture : Chinese head tax and the making of non-citizens /

"Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cho, Lily, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Chinese > Taxation > Canada > History.
Immigrants > Canada > Identification > History.
Identification photographs > Canada > History.
Portrait photography > Political aspects > Canada > History.
Ethnicity > Political aspects > Canada > History.
Race discrimination > Canada > History.
Chinois > Impôts > Canada > Histoire.
Photographies d'identité > Canada > Histoire.
Portraits (Photographie) > Aspect politique > Canada > Histoire.
Ethnicité > Aspect politique > Canada > Histoire.
Discrimination raciale > Canada > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Chinese > Taxation
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Ethnicity > Political aspects
Identification photographs
Race discrimination
Canada > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
Canada
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mass Capture as a Technology of Non-citizenship
  • Mass Capture against Memory
  • Envisioning Kinship in Mass Capture
  • Mass Capture and the Grammars of Persistent Representation
  • Anticipating Citizenship and Mass Capture
  • Coda: Shame about That Microfilm.

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