Blogs Categories: Asian American History

Paper Sons in the Era of Immigration Restriction: Chinese Immigration and the Immigration Act of 1924

May 23, 2024

By: Ryan Reft

On the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, the case of Gin Foo Wong highlights how Asian immigrants attempted to circumvent the law’s nativist policies through the tactic of creating “paper” sons and daughters.

Posted in: Unfolding History

Viet Dinh, Anthony Lewis, and the Complexity of being Asian American in the Twentieth Century

May 19, 2022

By: Ryan Reft

Long subject to discriminatory immigration policies and violence, being Asian American in the United States has always been marked by incongruence and difficulty made clear in the correspondence between Viet D. Dinh and New York Times journalist Anthony Lewis.

Posted in: Unfolding History