Seeking identity
The transborder lives of mainland Chinese families with children born in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4262846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Li Xiyuan (Center for the Studies of Hong Kong, Macao and Pearl River Delta, Department of Sociology Sun Yat‐Sen University), Xiyuan Li (0000-0003-3192-652X, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 437-452 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Networks (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/glob.12118 |
| OpenAlex | W2343522458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 17 |
Between 2001 and 2013, Hong Kong regulations permitted pregnant women from mainland China to travel to Hong Kong to deliver their babies. In this article, based on 30 in-depth interviews, I explore the transborder lives and identities of these mainland Chinese families who, motivated by cost considerations, citizenship and anticipated benefits for their children, chose to give birth to their babies in Hong Kong. In some cases, family networks providing flexible residential practices and family care, supported these transborder activities. However, the complexities of transborder life reveal the diverse 'identifications' within Hong Kong society and mainland families. Because neither administration totally accepts them, they are not full members of either society and so the identities they form are both plural and fragmented
China · Chose · Citizenship · Economic growth · Geography · Mainland · Mainland China · Plural · Political science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Residential Space Poverty and the Spatial Solutions for Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
Rhythms, flows, and structures of cross‐boundary schooling
Frequent border‐crossing children and cultural membership
Making ways for ‘better education’
Bridging home and school in cross-border education
Racialization of xinyimin and their double lives
Questions of Cultural Identity
Cross‐border connection between hong kong and mainland china under ‘two systems’ before and beyond 1997
Migration and the “Second Wife” in South China
Hong Kong Identity on the Rise
Migrant Transnationalism and Modes of Transformation
Immigration Theory for a New Century
Time-space Punctuation
Politicizing Tradition
Children In-Between
Borders and Bordering
Transnational Migration Studies
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |