The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated geopolitical tensions in ways that are creating a generation of disenchanted youths who imagine their futures within the cities they live, study, and work in to be eroded. A portion of these youths are driven towards disquieting forms of ‘escape mobilities’, in an attempt to seek out new lives abroad. In Hong Kong, youths have expressed their desire to emigrate due to frustrations towards the city’s rising cost of living, urban inequalities, and contentious political sentiments about the loss of autonomy and civic freedom since the early 2000s. The pandemic has allowed Beijing to strengthen its power over Hong Kong territories through the National Security Law (NSL), while driving greater conviction among youths to seek educational refuge outside of the city and to avoid state persecution under the NSL. This series of articles focuses on Hong Kong and its youth to shed light on how borders and mobilities – including those around education – intertwine with young people’s politics.
| ‘We Are Fleeing the Law’: Hong Kong Protesters Escape to Taiwan nytimes.com |
| Taiwan’s universities open doors to students fleeing Hong Kong campus turmoil scmp.com |
| Hong Kong protests: activist facing charges flees to Netherlands and another also goes missing scmp.com |
| Hongkongers who want to flee to Taiwan will go through strict screening, officials say scmp.com |
| 香港「反送中」催生一堂熱門課 台大如何用知識武裝學生？｜天下雜誌 cw.com.tw |
| Canada urged to amend refugee, immigration rules to welcome Hong Kongers fleeing Chinese crackdown theglobeandmail.com |
| More Hongkongers apply to be refugees in Australia as security law passes theguardian.com |
| US bill grants refugee status to Hong Kong protesters nikkei.com |
| Unrest in Hong Kong sees pro-democracy protester seeking asylum in Australia abc.net.au |
| This Hong Kong student protester fled to Australia. Now he’s seeking asylum sbs.com.au |
| Asylum or economic opportunity? The mixed messages in Australia’s new Hong Kong visa options theconversation.com |
| Pro-Hong Kong democracy students in Perth allege death threats, intimidation from Chinese nation abc.net.au |
| Protests send Hong Kongers to Taiwan in search of new lives straitstimes.com |
| Hong Kong refugees captured at sea spent months plotting daring dash to freedom in Taiwan washingtonpost.com |
| Hong Kong residents arrested at sea ‘will have to be dealt with’ by mainland China straitstimes.com |
| Canada woos Hong Kong students amid China crackdown SCMP.com |
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