Sentence examples for paper son from inspiring English sources
The book's first poem, written in her own voice, begins, "I am not the daughter of a / paper son / false citizen / prisoner," before declaring, nonetheless, "This is my legacy".
A common strategy was that of the so-called "paper son" system, in which young Chinese males attempted to enter the United States with purchased identity papers for fictional sons of U.S. citizens (people of Chinese descent who had falsely established the identities of those "sons").
SON'S HOMAGE -- Byron Yee, an actor and writer, performs "Paper Son," an exploration of his father's migration from China and his own experiences as a Chinese-American performer, as part of the Barnard Forum on Migration; Thursday 7 p.m.; Minor Latham Playhouse, Milbank Hall, Barnard, near Broadway and 117th Street; free; (212) 854-9011.
Like tens of thousands of others who managed to come to the United States from China during a 60-year period when the law singled them out for exclusion, the man, Tun Funn Hom, had entered as a "paper son," with false identity papers that claimed his father was a native citizen.
These people became the "paper sons and daughters" of earlier Chinese immigrants.
"Even my own grandparents who came in as paper sons were very, very reluctant to talk about this".
And though some descendants of paper sons do not make the connection, many others have become immigrant rights advocates in law, politics or museums like this one, which hopes to draw a national audience to its new Chinatown space, designed by Maya Lin.
Because some of the drafted and enlisted were "paper sons" who came to America with falsified papers, many of the men were actually younger or older than the legal age to serve.
On the one hand, I had a gregarious, open grandfather who, when I interviewed him for my college, oral history project, said: "You know, I had to come in as a paper-son.
The postcard-sized paper my son brought home from school had four imposing Chinese characters written vertically down the middle.
Eduar Celina told the paper his son could not make a difference unless he was playing regularly.
