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Mass Capture - Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens (Hardcover)
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Mass Capture - Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens (Hardcover)
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Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada
implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal
information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of
state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to
1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation,
identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly,
identification photographs. The originals were transferred to
microfilm and destroyed in 1963; more than 41,000 grainy
reproductions of CI 9s remain. Lily Cho explores how the CI 9s
functioned as a form of surveillance and a process of mass capture
that produced non-citizens, revealing the surprising dynamism of
non-citizenship constantly regulated and monitored, made and
remade, by an anxious state. The first mass use of identification
photography in Canada, they make up the largest archive of images
of Chinese migrants in the country, including people who stood no
chance of being photographed otherwise. But CI 9s generated far
more information than could be processed, and there is nothing
straightforward about the knowledge that they purported to contain.
Cho finds traces of alternate forms of kinship in the archive as
well as evidence of the ways that families were separated. In
attending to the particularities of these images and documents,
Mass Capture uncovers the alternative story that lies in the
refusals and resistances enacted by the mass captured. Illustrated
with painstakingly reconstituted digital reproductions of the
microfilm record, Mass Capture reclaims the CI 9s as more than
documents of racist repression, suggesting the possibilities for
beauty and dignity in the archive, for captivation as well as
capture.
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