Paper families : identity, immigration administration, and Chinese exclusion / Estelle T. Lau.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Politics, history, and culture.
Main Author: Lau, Estelle T.
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Politics, history, and culture.
Subjects:
Chinese Americans > Race identity.
Chinese Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Immigrants > United States > History.
China > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
Physical Description:x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : identity and exclusion
  • Legislating exclusion
  • Challenges to exclusion
  • Entry despite exclusion
  • Guardians of the gate
  • Legacies.