The Politics of Sexual Citizenship

Negotiating Acts of Citizenship Among Non-Heterosexuals in Hong Kong

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3661167
AutoresChan Ka Ki (0000-0002-5450-7435, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen66
Número11
Páginas1570-1588
Fecha de publicación2019-09-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2018.1503463
PMID30235070
OpenAlexW2891028904
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas45

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