Asylum seeking in Hong Kong as a rite of passage

Q2 Social Sciences Asian anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/1683478x.2023.2222991

G. Mathews

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Abstract This article, based on interactions and interviews within a class of mostly African asylum seekers in Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions over the past 17 years, examines their asylum-seeking as an extended rite of passage, one that eventually led their lives in a more fulfilling direction than asylum-seeking as generally portrayed in the academic literature. Some of these former asylum seekers in Hong Kong have returned to their home countries; some have attained refugee status and now live in the United States or Canada; some have found alternative paths to leave asylum-seeker status, and now live in Southeast Asia; and some have gotten married to Hongkongers and have become permanent Hong Kong residents. Most of the former asylum seekers I interviewed said that, although being an asylum seeker was a long and frustrating process, it was in the end worthwhile for them. What they have experienced as asylum seekers was a long voyage lasting many years into the prime of their lives but that eventually reached a destination better than where they had left.

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在香港寻求庇护是一种成人仪式

本文基于对过去17年来在香港重庆大厦的一群寻求庇护者(主要是非洲人)的互动和访谈，考察了他们的寻求庇护作为一种延长的成人仪式，最终将他们的生活引向比学术文献中普遍描述的寻求庇护更充实的方向。这些在香港的前寻求庇护者中，有些已返回原籍国;有些人获得了难民身份，现在居住在美国或加拿大;有些人找到了其他途径来摆脱寻求庇护者的身份，现在住在东南亚;还有一些人与香港人结婚，成为香港永久居民。我采访过的大多数前寻求庇护者都表示，尽管成为一名寻求庇护者是一个漫长而令人沮丧的过程，但最终对他们来说是值得的。他们作为寻求庇护者所经历的是一段漫长的旅程，持续了很多年，直到他们生命的黄金时期，但最终到达了一个比他们离开时更好的目的地。

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Asian anthropology Social Sciences-Anthropology

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