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Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion

Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion

Lau, Estelle T.

Paperback

Series: Politics, History, and Culture

General World History

ISBN10: 0822337479
ISBN13: 9780822337478
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 4 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and practices. Through the enforcement of the Exclusion Act and subsequent legislation, the U.S. immigration service developed new forms of record keeping and identification practices. Meanwhile, Chinese Americans took advantage of the system's loophole: children of U.S. citizens were granted automatic eligibility for immigration. The result was an elaborate system of paper families, in which U.S. citizens of Chinese descent claimed fictive, or paper, children who could then use their kinship status as a basis for entry into the United States. This subterfuge necessitated the creation of crib sheets outlining genealogies and providing village maps and other information that could be used during immigration processing.

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