Paper sons
Term for Chinese people born in China and illegally immigrated to the U.S. and Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paper sons or paper daughters is a term used to refer to Chinese people who were born in China and illegally immigrated to the United States and Canada[1] by purchasing documentation which stated that they were blood relatives to Chinese people who had already received U.S. or Canadian[2] citizenship or residency. Typically it would be relation by being a son or a daughter.[3] Several historical events such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused the illegal documents to be produced.[4]
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