Diaspora formation and mobilisation: The emerging Hong Kong diaspora in the anti‐extradition bill movement

Over the years, literature studying stateless diaspora formation through a transborder social movement studies approach is growing. The recent rise of Hong Kong diaspora provides an emerging case of stateless diaspora that introduces new empirical insights into the scholarly literature. Using a mixe...

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Published inNations and nationalism Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1061 - 1079
Main Author Fong, Brian C. H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2022
Subjects
Activism
Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement
Case studies
Cultural resources
Diaspora
diaspora identity
diaspora mobilisation
Extradition
Hong Kong diaspora
Mixed methods research
Social movements
stateless diaspora
Statelessness
transborder social movements
Hong Kong China
China
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Summary:Over the years, literature studying stateless diaspora formation through a transborder social movement studies approach is growing. The recent rise of Hong Kong diaspora provides an emerging case of stateless diaspora that introduces new empirical insights into the scholarly literature. Using a mixed‐method research strategy, this study empirically investigates the formation of the Hong Kong diaspora as a ‘historically contingent process’, through which overseas Hongkongers were mobilised during the 2019–20 Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement (critical event) to join global protests (mobilising practices) by diaspora groups and activists (mobilising agents). Achieved transborder outreach across the Global North by mobilising their strong moral and cultural resources, it remains to be seen whether the emerging Hong Kong diaspora will move towards a full‐fledged, sustained identity‐based movement. The case study of Hong Kong diaspora offers new comparative insights and establishes a mixed‐method analytical framework for comparing stateless diaspora worldwide.
Bibliography:Funding information
Education University of Hong Kong, Grant/Award Number: R4123 RG2/20‐21R
ISSN:1354-5078
1469-8129
DOI:10.1111/nana.12804