Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong

Community, nation and the global city
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-39672-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ku, Agnes S.

Pun, Ngai

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Part 1: State, Institutions, and Ideologies 2. Citizenship as a Form of Governance: A Historical Overview 3. Welfare Good or Colonial Citizenship? A Case Study of Early Resettlement Housing 4. Civic Education and the Making of Deformed Citizenry: From British Colony to Chinese Sar 5. The Making of 'Ideal Citizen' in Schooling Processes: Gender, Differences and Inequalities Part 2: Migration, Belonging, and Exclusion 6. Politics of Incorporation and Exclusion: Citizenship and Immigration Issues 7. Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: 'Race', Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region 8. Lived Citizenship and Lower Class Chinese Migrant Women: A Global City without its People Part 3: Civil Society, Resistance, and Participation 9. Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Regimes 10. En-Gendering Citizenship 11. (Post-)Identity Politics and Anti-Normalization: (Homo)Sexual Rights Movement 12. In Search of Communal Economic Subject - Reflections on a Local Community Currency Project 13. One Country, Three Systems? State, Nation, and Civil Society in the Making of Citizenship in the Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong Index Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Agnes S. Ku is Associate Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ngai Pun is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.