Inconvenient Strangers : Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship, by Shui-yin Sharon Yam 1 Half Title Page 2 Series Title Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 INTRODUCTION 10 CONTEXT: ETHNOCRACY, RACE, AND CITIZENSHIP IN HONG KONG 15 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS 20 STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK 22 CHAPTER 1: Deliberative Empathy, Family, and Storytelling 25 CITIZENSHIP AND FAMILIAL TROPES OF INTIMACY 27 TRANSFORMATIVE DELIBERATION ACROSS DIFFERENCE 34 POLITICS OF RECOGNITION AND IDENTIFICATION 36 EMPATHY AND SOLIDARITY 39 DELIBERATIVE EMPATHY AND COALITIONAL POTENTIAL 45 NARRATIVES AND STORYTELLING AS POLITICAL AND ETHICAL PRAXIS 46 CHAPTER 2: Inconvenient Strangers: South Asians and Gendered Familial Solidarity 53 HISTORY AND CONTEXT: FAMILIAL TROPES IN HONG KONG CITIZENSHIP DISCOURSE 57 SOUTH ASIAN CITIZENSHIP AND THE RHETORIC OF FAMILIAL EXCLUSION AND KINSHIP 62 REDEFINING KIN TIES AND NATIONAL BOUNDARIES 65 LINKING THE FAMILIAL AND THE ECONOMIC: WHITENESS AS NEOLIBERAL EXCEPTION 68 STORYTELLING AS RHETORICAL REDRESS 73 THE HUMAN LIBRARY AND THE REIFICATION OF HIERARCHY 74 MEDIATED STORIES AND THE RHETORICS OF PROXIMITY 78 CONSTRUCTING SUBJECTIVITY AND AGENCY THROUGH FAMILIAL TALES 82 INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOLIDARITY ACROSS DIFFERENCE 91 CONCLUSION 96 CHAPTER 3: Uneasy Recognition and Proximity: Strangers in the Home 98 CONTEXT AND HISTORY OF THE FDH SCHEME 106 ORDINARY RESIDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF STATE IMMIGRATION CONTROL 117 BEYOND THE CITIZENSHIP FRAMEWORK: PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND ETHNOGRAPHY 123 PERSONAL NARRATIVES AND THE LIMIT OF THE INDIVIDUAL 125 TRANSNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY: CONNECTING THE PERSONAL WITH THE STRUCTURAL 135 CONCLUSION 147 CHAPTER 4: The Limits of Deliberative Empathy: Chinese Maternal Tourism and Contesting Familial Claims 151 BACKGROUND: ONE COUNTRY, TWO IDENTITIES 154 FAMILIAL TIES AND THE LIMIT OF FORMAL CITIZENSHIP 160 NEOLIBERAL INTERESTS AND STATE POLITICAL POWER 168 CONFLICTING NATION-FAMILIES AND COMPETING INTERESTS 171 THE AFFECTIVE ECONOMIES OF FEAR AND PANIC 174 PUBLIC ANGER AND CHINESE MATERNAL TOURISM 178 DEHUMANIZING THE AGGREGATE 180 DISGUST AS POLITICAL EMOTION 185 THE LIMIT OF DELIBERATIVE EMPATHY 188 FORMAL EXCLUSION OF MATERNAL TOURISTS 195 CONCLUSION 198 CONCLUSION: Deliberative Empathy, Habits, and Proximity 200 Bibliography 206 Index 222