Global Hong Kong Post-2019 Migration and the New Hong Kong Diaspora

Introduction: Post-2019 Hong Kong migration and the Hong Kong diaspora: A historical perspective and a multiscalar approach, Yuk Wah Chan Part I: HK-UK in continuum and the new Hong Kong diaspora in the UK 1. ‘Global Britain’, the coloniality of migration, and the Hong Kong BN(O) Visa, Michaela Benson; 2. From colonial subjects to British? Hong Kong–British identity and BN(O) migrants in the UK, Yuk Wah Chan; 3. Hong Kong Christian migrants in search of identity and a home in the UK, Yvette To; 4. Hong Kongers and the Hong Kong diasporic foodscape in the UK, Yuk Wah Chan Part II: The new Hong Kong diaspora beyond Europe 5. Four waves of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada: Is there an emerging diasporic community? Miu Chung Yan and Susanna Ng; 6. From reluctant to emotional: Hong Kong migrants and their discontent in Taiwan, Wing Chung Ho; 7. Work-life (im)balance and existential (im)mobility: Hong Kong professional migrants in Australia, Yvette To Part III: Transforming population geographies in Hong Kong 8. The impact of post-2019 migration on Hong Kong population dynamics, Ka Wang Kelvin Lam and Eric Fong; 9. The exodus of expatriates during political change and the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of the French in Hong Kong, Emilie Tran; 10. Migrants and their parents: Elder mobility, care and floating child–parent relationships, Yuk Wah Chan and Eunice Yin-Yung Chiu; Conclusion: Hong Kong migration: Continuity, change, and controversy, Yvette To; Index

Biography

Yuk Wah Chan is Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover international migration, tourism, borderland, identity, and food studies. She has published a number of volumes on Asian migration and diasporas, including New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations (Routledge 2017, co-edited with Sin Yee Koh). She is one of the Series Editors of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration.

Yvette To is Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research covers migration intermediaries and settlement patterns of migrants, and she is the author of Contested Development in China’s Transition to an Innovation-driven Economy (Routledge, 2022).

"Featuring 10 empirical chapters, [this book] collectively argues that a global Hong Kong diaspora is emerging. […] The authors convincingly demonstrate how these political and social developments – combined with Hong Kong’s colonial history and its identity as a Chinese-majority migrant society – intersect with the political contexts of the receiving countries, such as post-Brexit Britain, local politics in Taiwan, and earlier migration waves to Canada and Australia. The chapters offer valuable insights into how these migrants navigate settlement and identity formation, often falling between the categories of “forced” and “voluntary” migration – emerging instead as “reluctant migrants” who seek to establish new lives while preserving their sense of identity. […] It makes a timely and important contribution to Chinese and Hong Kong studies, as well as to the broader field of migration and diaspora studies. It sheds light on how ethnic and cultural identities are formed and transformed through migration, particularly in the context of postcolonial Hong Kong and shifting global immigration politics. It also highlights how Hong Kong’s identity as a migrant city is being reconfigured through economic and political pressures, contributing to the formation of a global diaspora."

-- Man-yee Kan, Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK in The China Quarterly.