The Politics of Sexual Citizenship

Negotiating Acts of Citizenship Among Non-Heterosexuals in Hong Kong

Bibliographic Data

ID3661167
AuthorsChan Ka Ki (0000-0002-5450-7435, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume66
Issue11
Pages1570-1588
Publication date2019-09-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2018.1503463
PMID30235070
OpenAlexW2891028904
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited45

The notion of sexual citizenship has been developed over the past two decades, and its discussion has been expanded to other regions. This article investigates the claiming of rights by non-heterosexuals in Hong Kong to achieve two objectives: to articulate the importance of the rights claiming process, particularly regarding how non-heterosexuals are being transformed to become claimants through rights claims, and to extend the notion of sexual citizenship in East Asia, particularly in the Hong Kong context. The findings show four distinctive characteristics of sexual citizenship in Hong Kong. Non-heterosexuals are found to have faced different struggles and barriers before or during the process of claiming rights, including restricted welfare rights access in various social institutions. Furthermore, the development of sexual citizenship in the Hong Kong local context is found to be limited

Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration