Precarious whiteness in pandemic times in China
Precarious whiteness in pandemic times in China
It is widely agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic has constituted one of the most severe disruptions to the globe since the Second World War. What commenced as a health crisis in January 2019 quickly escalated to widespread disruptions to geopolitical, economic, and social relations, with nations both sharing similar challenges and experiencing their own diverse patterns of disturbance. This special issue of Asian Anthropology gathers five studies that deal with how these disruptions impacted on a distinctive social group in a particular geopolitical context: white migrants in China. Yet while the articles reveal in fascinating detail how this combination of people and place is in many ways unique in terms of their experiences of, and responses to, the pandemic, the collection also speaks to larger themes of migration, citizenship, inequality, precarity and vulnerability, and the role of race within these. The Special Issue thus has tremendous value not only in terms of bringing our knowledge of international migrants’ experiences of white privilege in China up to date, but also joins other literatures that explore the changing forms and shapes of whiteness in international contexts (Hunter and van der Westhuizen 2021; Leonard and Walsh 2019).
citizenship, Covid-19, inequality, migration, White migrants in China, “precarious whiteness”
238-243
Leonard, Pauline
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16 September 2022
Leonard, Pauline
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Abstract
It is widely agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic has constituted one of the most severe disruptions to the globe since the Second World War. What commenced as a health crisis in January 2019 quickly escalated to widespread disruptions to geopolitical, economic, and social relations, with nations both sharing similar challenges and experiencing their own diverse patterns of disturbance. This special issue of Asian Anthropology gathers five studies that deal with how these disruptions impacted on a distinctive social group in a particular geopolitical context: white migrants in China. Yet while the articles reveal in fascinating detail how this combination of people and place is in many ways unique in terms of their experiences of, and responses to, the pandemic, the collection also speaks to larger themes of migration, citizenship, inequality, precarity and vulnerability, and the role of race within these. The Special Issue thus has tremendous value not only in terms of bringing our knowledge of international migrants’ experiences of white privilege in China up to date, but also joins other literatures that explore the changing forms and shapes of whiteness in international contexts (Hunter and van der Westhuizen 2021; Leonard and Walsh 2019).
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 May 2022
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citizenship, Covid-19, inequality, migration, White migrants in China, “precarious whiteness”
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ISSN: 2168-4227
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