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Paper families : identity, immigration administration, and Chinese exclusion / Estelle T. Lau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lau, Estelle T.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese Americans--Race identity.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- China--Emigration and immigration--History.
- China.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A look at how the Chinese Exclusion Act and later legislation affected Chinese American communities, who created fictitious ""paper families"" to subvert immigration policies.
- Contents:
- Introduction : identity and exclusion
- Legislating exclusion
- Challenges to exclusion
- Entry despite exclusion
- Guardians of the gate
- Legacies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822337355
- 0822337355
- OCLC:
- 317335796
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