‘Indigenous’ or ‘All Stars’: Discourses on ‘Team Hong Kong’ in a FIFA World Cup Tournament
| Autor: | Andy Chiu, Ka Ki Lawrence 何家騏 Ho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Ethnic group Gender studies 030229 sport sciences Naturalization Indigenous 03 medical and health sciences Negotiation 0302 clinical medicine Sovereignty Political science Law 0502 economics and business Nationality China Citizenship 050212 sport leisure & tourism Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | The International Journal of the History of Sport. 33:1226-1241 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9035 0952-3367 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09523367.2016.1267150 |
| Popis: | This paper utilizes the controversies in China’s Hong Kong over the non-ethnic representatives to explore the debates on naturalization and the negotiation of nationality. China disallows split loyalties and all non-ethnics must abandon the passport of their original countries in the stringent process of naturalization. Problematically, Hong Kong, a former British colony and a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China, has less rigid requirements on citizenship, effectively disregarding a person’s ethnicity. Hong Kong citizenship then gives grounds for non-ethnics to naturalize as Chinese and represent Hong Kong in FIFA tournaments such as the World Cup as holders of Hong Kong SAR passport without an overseas nationality or citizenship. This research takes notes from the interviews with naturalized players and online discussions to explore the arguments favouring or rejecting naturalized representatives in Hong Kong against the background of its complex dynamics with ma... |
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