Paper Families

Paper Families
Author: Estelle T. Lau
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822337478

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

Gold Mountain Turned to Dust

Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Author: John R. Wunder
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826359396

Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West. The first two essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American West.

New Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand

New Chinese Immigrants in New Zealand
Author: Liangni Sally Liu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2021-11-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000474550

This book focuses on new immigrant families from the People’s Republic of China to New Zealand and investigates how these families have adapted to New Zealand immigration policy regime, which does not accommodate their cultural preference to live as multigenerational families easily. The book analyses a three-generation framework: First-generation adult immigrants, their children and older parents. It examines how migratory mobility and intergenerational dynamics configure migratory trajectories of individual family members and shape their family lives and sense of identity. The book sheds light on how different family generations pursue their own interests and goals while maintaining family unity and cohesiveness in contexts of increasing transnational mobility opportunities and constraints. It also investigates how familial ties, transnational connections and a sense of identity and belonging are defined and redefined during the process of transnational migration. This book can serve as a heuristic reference to and meaningful comparative parameter for studying transnational family migration in other contexts. As a significant theoretical contribution to the theory of transnational family formation in contexts where restrictive immigration policies result in members of multigenerational families living across different countries, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, anthropology, race and ethnic studies as well as Asian and Chinese studies.

Contemporary Chinese America

Contemporary Chinese America
Author: Min Zhou
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1592138594

A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience.

Chinese Diasporas

Chinese Diasporas
Author: Steven B. Miles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107179920

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.