On the Social Integration of Chinese Immigrants in Post-handover Hong Kong: Rethinking the Making of the Hong Kong Person

Lam, Beatrice Oi-yeung

doi:10.15685/omnes.2016.01.6.2.1

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“…Hong Kong is a predominantly homogeneous society with 92% of its population ethnic Chinese (Census & Statistics Department, 2017). Among the people of Chinese descent, the locals (Hongkongers) generally denotes those who were born and/or raised in Hong Kong, that is, the majority group; whereas new immigrants refers to Mainlanders who have resided in Hong Kong for less than 7 years, that is, the minority group (Erni & Leung, 2014; Hui et al, 2015; Lam, 2016). As defined by the Census and Statistics Department (2017), all non-Chinese in Hong Kong are collectively called ethnic minorities .…”

Section: Global Orientations and Cultural Diversity In Hong Kongmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relationships between global orientations and attitudes toward integration policies: A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach.

Au¹,

Ng²,

Chen³

et al. 2024

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives: Based upon a mixed methods follow-up explanation model, the present research examined the relationships between global orientations and the attitudes toward integration policies among both locals (majority group) and South Asians (minority group) in Hong Kong. Methods: In Study 1, quantitative data were collected from a community sample of 1,614 adults comprising 1,007 locals and 607 South Asians in three minority groups (Indians, Nepalese, and Pakistanis). In Study 2, a follow-up explanation phase of qualitative investigation was conducted, with 12 in-depth semistructured focus group discussions among seven locals and 49 South Asians, generating three main themes and six subthemes. Results: Quantitative results showed that the positive link between multicultural acquisition and instrumental integration policies was significantly stronger for South Asians than for locals, and that ethnic protection was negatively associated with a positive attitude toward symbolic integration policies in the majority group but had no effects in the minority group. The three main themes generated from the qualitative results include alleviating minority disadvantage, preserving majority privilege, and embracing diversity for the common good. Conclusions: The combined quantitative and qualitative results suggest that the differential relationships of multicultural acquisition and ethnic protection with support for specific integration policies can be understood with the underlying structural power asymmetry between the majority and minority groups. Public Significance StatementIntergroup relations have been studied extensively from an acculturation perspective. We investigate majority and minority group members' attitudes toward social integration in the context of globalization. Their global orientations have differential relationships with symbolic and instrumental integration policies.

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Section: Global Orientations and Cultural Diversity In Hong Kongmentioning

confidence: 99%