Paper sons or paper daughters is a term used to refer to Chinese people that were born in China who illegally immigrated to the United States by purchasing fraudulent documentations which stated that they were blood relatives to Chinese Americans who had already received U.S. citizenship . Typically it would be relation by being a son or a daughter . Many fled China because of war and poverty . Several historical events such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused the illegal documents to be produced
San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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