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When Chae Chan Ping, a Chinese national who had worked in California for 12 years, was returning by ship to the USA from a visit home to China, he surely did not realize how significant his trip might be for the history of immigration law. While he was away, a piece of legislation (the Scott Act) had been passed. This law barred him, and thousands of other Chinese immigrants, from entering the USA, even if they held a re-entry certificate. The date was 8 October 1888. The USA had shifted its policy towards Chinese immigration from ‘restriction’ to ‘exclusion’ (Lew-Williams 2014), a situation that would only change in 1943 (through the Magnuson Act).

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    The Chinese Exclusion Case, 130, U.S. 581 (1889) p595.

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    Mr Cameron made the comments in an interview with ITV News on a state visit to Vietnam, 30 July 2015: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-07-30/pm-a-swarm-of-migrants-want-to-come-to-britain/.

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    Foreign Minister Philip Hammond made the comments in an interview with the BBC on a visit to Singapore, 9 August 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33842861.

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    The comments were made by Donald Trump during the announcement of his campaign for the presidency, 16 June 2015: http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/.

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    Statement by Democratic presidential candidate Governor Martin O’Malley, 15 July 2015.

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    Statement by shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, during parliamentary debate, 3 March 2015, on the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150303/debtext/150303-0001.htm#150303-0001.htm_spnew153.

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    2 December 1783, Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association and Other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland Who Have Lately Arrived in the City of New York.

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Balch, A. (2016). Introduction. In: Immigration and the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-38589-5_1

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