Chinese Head-Tax: A Discriminatory Piece of Legislation

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History

 

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June 24, 2017

 

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Embedded in the Act, was a $50 head-tax that would be imposed on Chinese migrants before they could be landed (Anderson ,22). Although the government tried to justify the reason for the head-tax to be one of generating revenue, it was clearly used to restrict the entry of Chinese migrants (Anderson ,25)...
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If it in fact was a method for generating revenue, the government should have applied the policy to all people migrating to Canada, however, they only applied it to the Chinese. The number of Chinese immigrants entering the country in the years that the head-tax was in effect significantly decreased, and to add to that decrease, the government raised the tax to $100 in 1900 and then to $500 in 1905 (Anderson ,21)...
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