Imagining accidental fetal citizens: pregnant Mainland women and the cultural politics of birthright citizenship.

This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberations of the SAR government's immigration policies relating to cross-border birth tourism. Pregnant Mainland women and their children (fetuses), as emergent social subjects, embody conflict and the negoti...

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Publicado en:Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 73 - 91
Autores principales: Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle, Woo, Chun-kai, Lai, Yen-fu
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2019
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        Pregnant women
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        birth tourism
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      ab: This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberations of the SAR government's immigration policies relating to cross-border birth tourism. Pregnant Mainland women and their children (fetuses), as emergent social subjects, embody conflict and the negotiation between population governance and economic benefits. The government denies pregnant Mainland women the right to give birth in Hong Kong based on their non-eligible status while admitting their children to be born in Hong Kong on the grounds that their children meet Hong Kong's future demand for population renewal, in this way boosting the development of childbirth tourism. However, the localism, which has had an extensive influence on Hong Kong local society in recent years, has rejected the SAR government's "population renewal" imaginary by suggesting its own "locust imaginary." The government's acceptance and the local's exclusion of the population flow between China and Hong Kong imply distinct cross-border subject imaginations. Only by contextualizing and critically analyzing the various othering identities such as the non-eligible or locusts can we better understand the cultural politics of Hong Kong birthright citizenship over recent years.
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