Ebook: Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens

Exploring how identification photographs function as mechanisms of capture and captivation.

Mass Capture argues the CI 9 documents implemented by the Canadian government to acquire information on Chinese migrants acted as a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens. Cho reveals CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression: they offer possibilities for beauty and dignity in the archive, for captivation as well as capture.