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Forging Citizenship in China’s Borderlands: State Tactics, Everyday Struggles, and the Pluralization of Belonging book cover

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Forging Citizenship in China’s Borderlands State Tactics, Everyday Struggles, and the Pluralization of Belonging

Edited By Tianlong You, Zhonghua Guo Copyright 2027
166 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a vivid and timely account of how belonging is made, contested, and lived in some of the most politically sensitive and socially dynamic regions of contemporary China. The volume reconceptualizes citizenship from the vantage point of China's borderlands and adjacent transnational spaces, where state power, mobility, ethnicity, religion, and everyday survival intersect. Bringing... Read more

Introduction: Forging citizenship in China’s borderlands: state tactics, everyday struggles, and the pluralization of belonging

Tianlong You and Zhonghua Guo

 

1. Refusable citizenship: stateless Myanmar Muslims and the contingent politics of belonging in China’s southwestern borderlands

Tianlong You

 

2. Performative state presence shapes citizenship in the China-North Korea borderland

Shiwei Chen

 

3. Making belonging at the margins: borderland citizenship among Myanmar brides in southwest China

Xiaoxin Zhong

 

4. Negotiating unbelonging: lived citizenship and “rejection valley” among Kandas in Kazakhstan

Zhe Zhang

 

5. Crossing borders, creating boundaries: transborder citizenship and the affiliated agency among Hmong migrant workers in the China–Laos border

Tian Shi

 

6. Religion, migration, and the politics of recognition: mediated citizenship and the Tai Association in the China-Myanmar-Thailand borderlands

Xing Gao

 

7. Invisible but deportable non-citizens: constitutive citizenship and acts of Filipino irregular migrants in China

Xinrong Ma

 

8. Auditing cultural citizenship in border checkpoints: perspective on a media event

Lingping Guo and Zhuozhao Tao

Biography

Tianlong You is Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University and Affiliate Faculty at Arizona State University’s Center for Global Health. An immigration sociologist trained in sociology, law, and immigration studies, his research examines immigrant entrepreneurship, China’s rural e-commerce transformation, and the global forces reshaping borderlands and emerging economic hubs in the digital era.

Zhonghua Guo is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics, Nanjing University, China. His academic interests include citizenship studies, concept and social science studies, and state theories. He has published widely in the fields of citizenship studies and concept and social science studies, including, as the sole guest editor, editing The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Citizenship, published in 2022.

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