Embodied by state borders

Citizenship negotiations of children in Chinese-foreign families in the People's Republic of China

Bibliographic Data

ID3608294
AuthorsElena Barabantseva (0000-0001-5169-8128), Caroline Grillot, Michaela Pelican (0000-0002-3173-2410)
Year2023
Volume49
Issue15
Pages3709-3729
Publication date2023-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2023.2206000
OpenAlexW4382238407
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited45

The citizenship of Chinese-foreign children who have been brought up in China is an area of increasing political relevance because of their growing numbers and public visibility, as well as the high status accorded to children in the political agenda of the Communist Party, and wider debates on Chinese citizenship, identity and belonging. In this article we examine how decisions about children's citizenship are made across national and generational divides in different family contexts in China, namely in Chinese-Vietnamese, Chinese-Russian, Chinese-Ukrainian, and Chinese-Cameroonian families. We tease out contestations between foreign and Chinese parents and grandparents and discuss how gender, socioeconomic, and racial dimensions affect children's citizenship negotiations in these multigenerational households. We argue that the bodies of the Chinese-foreign children occupy a prominent place in the territorialising practices of Chinese citizenship that are shaped by gendered, racial, and socioeconomic inequalities

China · Citizenship · Communism · Grandparent · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · State (computer science · Ukrainian · Vietnamese · China's Global Influence and Migration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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