Securitised Belonging

This paper proposes the securitised identity response model ( SIRM ) to explain how the security discourse compels targeted communities to negotiate identities under shifting geopolitical conditions. Using Chinese Americans as a case study, this model explains how geopolitical rivalry is translated into domestic securitisation by framing transnational ties and ethnoracial cues as matters of national security. Rather than treating identity change as a single attitudinal shift, the model specifies a typology of securitised identity response modes, including strategic distancing, strategic silence or avoidance, bicultural bridging, reactive solidarity and politicised engagement. The paper contributes to diasporic studies by integrating securitisation and identity scholarship into a portable causal architecture with clear, testable constructs and an operationalisation blueprint for future comparative research across groups, countries and political cycles

Geopolitics · Negotiation · Politics · Scholarship · Security community · Solidarity · Typology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Global Security and Public Health · Transboundary Water Resource Management