Inconvenient Strangers : Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship, by Shui-yin Sharon Yam
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INTRODUCTION
	CONTEXT: ETHNOCRACY, RACE, AND CITIZENSHIP IN HONG KONG
	DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
	STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
CHAPTER 1: Deliberative Empathy, Family, and Storytelling
	CITIZENSHIP AND FAMILIAL TROPES OF INTIMACY
	TRANSFORMATIVE DELIBERATION ACROSS DIFFERENCE
	POLITICS OF RECOGNITION AND IDENTIFICATION
	EMPATHY AND SOLIDARITY
	DELIBERATIVE EMPATHY AND COALITIONAL POTENTIAL
	NARRATIVES AND STORYTELLING AS POLITICAL AND ETHICAL PRAXIS
CHAPTER 2: Inconvenient Strangers: South Asians and Gendered  Familial Solidarity
	HISTORY AND CONTEXT: FAMILIAL TROPES IN HONG KONG CITIZENSHIP DISCOURSE
	SOUTH ASIAN CITIZENSHIP AND THE RHETORIC OF FAMILIAL EXCLUSION AND KINSHIP
	REDEFINING KIN TIES AND NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
	LINKING THE FAMILIAL AND THE ECONOMIC: WHITENESS AS NEOLIBERAL EXCEPTION
	STORYTELLING AS RHETORICAL REDRESS
	THE HUMAN LIBRARY AND THE REIFICATION OF HIERARCHY
	MEDIATED STORIES AND THE RHETORICS OF PROXIMITY
	CONSTRUCTING SUBJECTIVITY AND AGENCY THROUGH FAMILIAL TALES
	INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOLIDARITY ACROSS DIFFERENCE
	CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 3: Uneasy Recognition and Proximity: Strangers in the Home
	CONTEXT AND HISTORY OF THE FDH SCHEME
	ORDINARY RESIDENCE AND THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF STATE IMMIGRATION CONTROL
	BEYOND THE CITIZENSHIP FRAMEWORK: PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND ETHNOGRAPHY
	PERSONAL NARRATIVES AND THE LIMIT OF THE INDIVIDUAL
	TRANSNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY: CONNECTING THE PERSONAL WITH THE STRUCTURAL
	CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 4: The Limits of Deliberative Empathy: Chinese Maternal Tourism and Contesting Familial Claims
	BACKGROUND: ONE COUNTRY, TWO IDENTITIES
	FAMILIAL TIES AND THE LIMIT OF FORMAL CITIZENSHIP
	NEOLIBERAL INTERESTS AND STATE POLITICAL POWER
	CONFLICTING NATION-FAMILIES AND COMPETING INTERESTS
	THE AFFECTIVE ECONOMIES OF FEAR AND PANIC
	PUBLIC ANGER AND CHINESE MATERNAL TOURISM
	DEHUMANIZING THE AGGREGATE
	DISGUST AS POLITICAL EMOTION
	THE LIMIT OF DELIBERATIVE EMPATHY
	FORMAL EXCLUSION OF MATERNAL TOURISTS
	CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION: Deliberative Empathy, Habits, and Proximity
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