The Loi of exclusion of the Chinese ( Chinese Exclusion Act ) was a voted American federal law on May 6th 1882, following the revisions of 1880 of the Traité of Burlingame of 1868. These revisions allowed the American government to suspend the Immigration in the United States nationals Chinese, and the Congrès took the necessary measures for its fast implementation. The law remained in force during ten years. This law of exclusion was then extended to the Japan board.

The law excluded the Chinese workers from emigration towards the United States. The Chinese already present at the United States and those holding a visa of work accepted a certificate of residence , and were authorized to travel apart from the United States and to return on the territory. Amendments incorporated in 1884 restricted the provisions more allowing the immigrants to leave the country and to return there, specifying that the law applied to the immigrants of Chinese ethnicity, without reference to country of origin. The law was renewed in 1892 by the Loi Geary for ten years, and again renewed in 1902, this time without precision of scratch date. It was repealed by the Loi Magnuson of 1943, allowing a national quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per annum. It is only starting from the Loi on the immigration of 1965 that a Chinese immigration with large scales began again.

See too

• Coolie
• Law of immigration Johnson-Reed
• Law Geary
• Law of the Chinese immigration of 1923 (Canada)

External bonds

• Text of the Law of exclusion of the Chinese