Abstract
Drawing on the notion of ‘politics of mobility’ and conceptualization of borders, this paper illustrates the peculiar, controversial and discriminatory citizenship policy, practice and discourse in Hong Kong. Under the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ constitutional principle, Hong Kong is separated from the China Mainland by an administrative border and exercises a separate residence rights regime. This paper highlights the tension produced by Hong Kong’s citizenship politics pursed by the state in turning the metropolitan into ‘Asia’s world city’ in this ‘One Country, Two Systems’ context. The world-city project entails offering right of abode (quasi citizenship) to highly-skilled migrants, ‘outstanding talents’ and investors while discriminating against those considered inappropriately-
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 49-63 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Migration Letters |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Hong Kong
- right of abode
- migration
- politics of mobility
- foreign domestic workers
- highly-skilled migrants
- Chinese ‘new migrants’
- border