Simultaneous Citizen and Noncitizen: Displacement, Precarity, and Passports in Hong Kong

Nicole Constable
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Abstract:Arguing against the reification of a citizen-noncitizen binary, and drawing on the example of economically precarious Indonesian workers and worker-activists in Hong Kong, I argue that simultaneous citizenship and non-citizenship (both a politico-legal citizen of one state and a non-citizen of another) can contribute to existential displacement in the form of disrupted lives and futures. The severe displacement of Indonesian workers, despite heroic mitigating efforts of migrant worker activists after a new passport renewal policy was introduced in 2015, illustrates how their displacement is tied to the inability of their Indonesian citizenship or their Hong Kong status to provide the necessary legal and social protections. Indonesian displacement is compounded by their economic precarity, but their displacement as citizen-noncitizens resembles that of Hongkongers who opposed China's encroachment after the 2019-2020 protests.
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同时公民与非公民:香港的流离失所、不稳定与护照
摘要:反对公民-非公民二元化的具体化,并借鉴香港经济不稳定的印尼工人和工人活动家的例子,我认为,同时拥有公民身份和非公民身份(既是一个州的政治法律公民,又是另一州的非公民)可能会以生活和未来被打乱的形式导致生存流离失所。尽管移民工人活动人士在2015年推出新的护照续期政策后做出了英勇的缓解努力,但印度尼西亚工人的严重流离失所表明,他们的流离失所与他们的印度尼西亚公民身份或香港身份无法提供必要的法律和社会保护有关。印尼人的流离失所因其经济不稳定而加剧,但他们作为非公民的流离失所与2019-2020年抗议活动后反对中国侵占的香港人相似。
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