Identification Photography and the Surveillance of Chinese Mobility in Colonial Australasia
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DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2022.2162094
Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, colonial governments across Australasia began experimenting with ways of documenting the identity of mobile Chinese residents – including naturalised and natural-born British subjects – who were exempted under colonial anti-Chinese… read more here.
Keywords: australasia; identification photography; colonial australasia; chinese residents ... See more keywords