Stuck in Wuhan? White mobility capital and the evacuation of mixed-status families after the Covid-19 outbreak
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18960871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willy Sier (0000-0001-8588-4287, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 171-183 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1683-478X • E-ISSN: 2168-4227 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1683478x.2022.2093770 |
| OpenAlex | W4285802942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
After the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan in January 2020, governments around the world evacuated their citizens from China. Soon, problems arose in relation to the evacuation of families made up of white Western migrants and Chinese citizens, as their mixed citizenship status prevented them from being evacuated as a family. By analyzing news reports, policy documents, and social media discussions about these families’ predicaments, this article investigates the reasons why they faced being separated in this time of crisis. Drawing on the concept of white mobility capital, it argues that the Covid-19 era brings to our attention the weak foundation of long-assumed mobility privileges among white migrants in China and sheds light on the precarious status of increasing numbers of mixed-status families in China
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · China · Citizenship · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Outbreak · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Sociology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Residence Registration in China’s Immigration Control
Borders of Belonging
White Migrations
Transnational business and family strategies among Chinese/Nigerian couples in Guangzhou and Lagos
Discourses of Race and Rising China
Making transnational intimacies
The Politics of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Critical Whiteness Studies
Destination China immigration to China in the post-reform era
Mobility capital
Gendering transnational communities
Losing Self to Discover National Citizenship
Using thematic analysis in psychology
China as a ‘new frontier
From "Passports" to "Joint Ventures
New Shanghailanders' or 'New Shanghainese
The foreign bully, the guest and the low-income knowledge worker
Flexible Citizenship
The White Side of Migration
Blogs as Elusive Ethnographic Texts
When Borders Lie Within
Between privileges and precariousness
Mobilizing migrants, making citizens
Understanding the contemporary race-migration nexus
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |