Paper Families : Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion /

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A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious ""paper families"" to subvert immigration policies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lau, Estelle T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethnische Beziehungen
Einwanderung
Race relations > Political aspects.
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
HISTORY > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Americains d'origine chinoise > Identite ethnique.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History.
Immigrants > United States > History.
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Chinese Americans > Race identity.
Chinesen.
USA
United States.
China.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
China > Emigration and immigration > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : identity and exclusion
  • Legislating exclusion
  • Challenges to exclusion
  • Entry despite exclusion
  • Guardians of the gate
  • Legacies.

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