Keenan Daniel Manning, is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on how different aspects of ‘identity’ are conceptualised and mobilised through academic and policy discourse and the ways in which this affects minoritised citizens’ belonging. His work particularly focuses on the positioning of ‘ethnic minorities’ in Hong Kong, and how notions of ‘ethnicity’, ‘migration’, ‘citizenship’, and ‘nationality’ are constructed by the state and perpetuated through education and scholarship.