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Poor Folk tells the story of A-Hong, an ethnic Chinese who illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to the border town of Tai Gu in Thailand with his sister, who was sold to a human trafficking syndicate. A-Hong first worked as an assistant to A-Fu, a tour guide and the trafficker who brought A-Hong to Bangkok.
Take Out is a 2004 independent film depicting a day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. . Written and directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker, the film was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award in the 2008 Independent Spirit Aw
The Chinese Exclusion Act, the documentary states, set the stage for the use and enforcement of immigration documents and the laws used to arrest and deport people found in the country unlawfully. Historian Erika Lee said the Chinese were, in essence, "the first illegal immigrants, the first undocumented immigrants."
Illegal films are defined in Interpretation of Regulations on the Administration of Movies as "films that have not been approved for public exhibition by the competent state administrative authorities," or "banned films" in the common sense. Such films have not been censored or have skipped censorship, such as being entered into overseas film ...
Asian Americans have long had the fastest-growing undocumented population, tripling over a 15-year period, from 2000 to 2015, and the number of Chinese nationals crossing into the U.S. has ...
China has also been the destination of illegal immigration, particularly along the China–North Korea border, Guangzhou, Guangxi Province, and the China-Myanmar border. According to 2020 Chinese census , China has 1,430,695 immigrants, dividing between 845,697 foreign nationals and 584,998 residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. [ 1 ]
However, with Hollywood's lobbying group pushing China to neither obey nor ignore this rule, China increased the quota for foreign films in accordance with the U.S.-China agreement. Just before the agreement was reached, the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia resulted in a five-month ban on U.S. films in China. [5]: p.53–55
The Chinese government actively discourages this type of behavior out of fears that it may cause instability in the region and encourage more illegal immigration. [1]In 2003, campaigns against illegal immigration were conducted in Guangdong and other Chinese provinces, and around 2008, the police repeatedly conducted so-called "hurricane" campaigns against illegal immigration in Guangdong.