This guide brings together descriptions of numerous records in the National Archives Sydney office relating to Chinese migration and settlement in New South Wales.
The records relate to day-to-day administration of entry and arrival in Australia, as well as wartime security measures such as registration of aliens.
Most records were created after Federation, but there is a small yet significant body of nineteenth-century records created by the Collector of Customs, Sydney.
This guide may interest family historians and researchers of Chinese–Australian history.