British National (Overseas) Hongkongers' Identity and the Role of Cantonese

《BN(O)香港移民：说普通话的中国人和广东人之间的猜疑和隔绝》(林，2022)。这篇新闻标题描绘了最近持英国国民(海外)签证移民到英国的香港人与其他华裔移民之间的政治冲突。自2021年1月推出签证计划以来，已有144,500名英国国民(海外)香港人移居英国(Lee，2023)。不断增长的BN(O)香港人具有强烈的群体认同感，他们预测会有更多类似的冲突(例如，林，2022；鲁，2021；温图尔，2022)。这个项目将探讨BN(O)香港人的身份建构，以及作为香港主要语言的粤语如何在这一过程中发挥作用(政府统计处，2022年)1，特别是它如何动员政治化的二元Cantonese-speaking-Hongkongers/Mandarin-speaking-mainlanders.研究结果将为了解英国国民(海外)香港人的特征提供学术依据。该项目将有助于与种族内部/种族间关系相关的学术和政策制定，这是英国一个突出的社会问题(例如，可汗和布朗，2022年)。

'BN(O) Hong Kong immigrants: Suspicion and isolation between Mandarin-speaking Chinese and Cantonese community' (Lam, 2022). This news title captures the inter-group political conflict between Hongkongers who recently migrated to the UK with a British National (Overseas) visa and other ethnic Chinese settlers. 144,500 BN(O) Hongkongers have moved to the UK since the visa scheme launched in January 2021 (Lee, 2023). The growing population of BN(O) Hongkongers, who have a strong group identity, forecasts more conflicts like this (e.g. Lam, 2022; Lu, 2021; Wintour, 2022). This project will explore the identity construction of BN(O) Hongkongers and how Cantonese, a predominant language in Hong Kong (Census and Statistics Department, 2022)1, plays a role in the process, especially how it mobilises the politicised binary of Cantonese-speaking-Hongkongers/Mandarin-speaking-mainlanders. Findings will shed scholarly light on the characteristics of BN(O) Hongkongers. This project will contribute to the scholarship and policymaking related to intra/inter-ethnic relations, a prominent social issue in the UK (e.g. Khan and Brown, 2022).