Abstract
Defying the pressure of demanding immigrants submitting their singular and exclusive loyalty to the residing country, this paper recognises the legitimacy of immigrants’ dual identity. Using the responses of immigrant women to sports events as a case study, this paper illuminates that dual identity is intertwined by primordial identity of the natal country and a gendered identity of the residing country as a caring mother. Defining the scenario where the immigrants’ natal country and residing country compete with each other at a sporting event as ‘in-between’ situation, this paper asserts that the concept of dual identity is inadequate to grasp the fluidity of immigrants’ national identity. Arising out of the in-between situation is an ‘in-between’ identity in which immigrants experience the ambiguity, fusion, conflict and liminality of the two senses of national belonging. A sporting event where the two countries play against each other symbolises the commonness, rather than the oddness, of the in-between identity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5-23 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society |
| Volume | 47 |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Jun 2016 |
| Event | 11th Annual Conference of European Association of Taiwan Studies: Taiwan: Self vs. Other - University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom Duration: 30 Apr 2014 → 2 May 2014 Conference number: 11 https://asiapacificstudents.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/the-11th-annual-conference-of-european-association-of-taiwan-studies/ http://eats-taiwan.eu/conference/eats-2014/programme/ |