| Titre | From Stigma to Superiority: Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Racial Boundaries Among Mainland Chinese Sex Workers in Hong Kong | |
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| Auteur | Gene-George Earlé | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 143, 2025 Rethinking Global China through Migrants in the Margins: Precarity, Agency, and Multi-directional Mobility | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special feature |
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| Page | 9-18 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article examines how Mainland Chinese sex workers in Hong Kong's “low-end” red-light districts experience and reproduce racial and social boundaries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it argues that given women's precarious and marginalised status, engagements with difference often negate opportunities for cross-cultural openness and instead take the form of “tactical cosmopolitanism” – situational practices of distancing and superiority used to restore dignity and legitimise their presence. These interactions frequently reinforce racial hierarchies shaped by stigma, illegality, and embodied risk. The paper situates these dynamics within broader debates on cosmopolitanism and “globalisation from below,” revealing how exclusion and hierarchy can persist, and even be reproduced, within contexts of mobility and desire in Hong Kong's low-end sex markets. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/19842 |
