Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion (Politics, History, and Culture)

By Estelle T. Lau

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337479
• ISBN13: 9780822337478
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.6" x 6.1"