Citizenship on the move: The deprivation and restoration of emigrants' <i>hukou</i> in China

• Main Author: LIU, Jiaqi M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Emigrant citizenship; emigration state; transborder population; China; hukou; deprivation and restoration; Asian Studies; Demography, Population, and Ecology; Immigration Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3852; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5110/viewcontent/CitizenshipontheMove_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Scholars have long debated whether international migration impinges on states’ control over transborder populations. In this article, I lay bare how states consolidate control through the calculated manipulation of emigrant citizenship. Based on a genealogical interrogation of China’s emigrant citiz...