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Estelle T. Lau highlights how immigrant identity formation was a two-way process involving both the immigrants and the relentless efforts of immigration officials to exclude them. She deftly and incisively uses her case study to illuminate the evolution of U.S. immigration policy overall.”
ESTELLE LAU, DEPUTY CEO, ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina. Lau has spent the past 20 years focusing on cross-border investments and companies expanding between the United States and Asia, mainly with Chinese-speaking countries, where she has helped companies as legal counsel, structuring operating teams and finance.
Apr 11, 2015 · Estelle Lau’s book adds to the burgeoning literature on the exclusion laws by analysing them in the context of sociological theories about bureaucratic development. Many scholars have noted the crucial role of the Chinese exclusion in forging of U.S. immigration law and as a pioneering institution of the fledgling U.S. administrative state.
Estelle Lau was born on 8 August 1964 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Open Water (2003) and Grind (1997).
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demo...
May 22, 2008 · Lau's excellent study looks at the elaborate paper families that were created to enable Chinese immigrants and their families to bring relatives, friends, or even in some cases strangers, to the United States under the restrictive immigration policies and practices against the Chinese that began with the 1875 Page Law.
