Sharp edges, fuzzy categories and transborder networks
Managing and housing new arrivals in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2150147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Smart (0000-0001-7880-9799, University of Calgary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-233 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0141987032000054402 |
| OpenAlex | W1973385349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
The sharp edges of inclusion or exclusion from citizenship are in contrast with the complex webs of transnational networks and interactions. The return of colonial Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty posed great challenges for citizenship categories. The definition of the right of abode in the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution, resulted in very large numbers of people who could claim this right, as many as 1.67 million. These numbers reflect the complex history of social relationships across the Hong Kong/China border. Despite high levels of socio-economic integration, the border still sharply restricts movement from China to Hong Kong, and this combination of integration and separation generates a complex dynamic, reflected in part in the right of abode controversy. The Hong Kong administration has overturned a court ruling in order to preserve restrictions on migration into Hong Kong by those accorded the right of abode, setting off intense public debate. Those mainlanders who do manage to enter Hong Kong face a variety of challenges, the most crucial of which is obtaining affordable accommodation in a city with among the highest housing costs in the world. New arrivals are excluded from eligibility for public housing, which accounts for over half of Hong Kong's housing stock, while private housing is among the world's most expensive. Keywords: Transnational NetworksHong KongChinaHousingExclusionCitizenship
Accommodation · China · Citizenship · Constitution · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stock (firearms · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law
Homelessness, housing insecurity and social exclusion in China, Hong Kong, and Japan
Border Management and Growth Coalitions in the Hong Kong Transborder Region
Economic Structure, Social Risks and the Challenges to Social Policy in M acau, C hina
Can Travelling Mothers Ever Arrive? Articulating Internal and International Migration within a Transnational Perspective of Care
What makes you feel at home? Constructing senses of home in two border cities
The myths and politics of housing in Hong Kong
Second homes in the Chinese Mainland under “one country, two systems”
Integrations, identity and conflicts
Ethnicity, cultural disparity and residential mobility
People Power as Exception
Urban Informality
Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Flexible Sojourning in the Era of Globalization
Life and death in Hong Kong in an age of cosmopolitanism
Bridging Borders in the Global City
Entrapped transnationalism
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2018 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |