Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Community, nation and the global city [Paperback]

Hong Kong has been undergoing considerable changes since its postcolonial independence. 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. Subjects covered include immigration, race, gender, homosexuality, the law and resistance. The book also compares citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong with a number of other East Asian countries.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 MalCM