Citizenship Swapping at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Susan Brownell

Citizenship Swapping at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Abstract

When Eileen Gu, born and raised in the United States, won three medals for China in the freestyle skiing events at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, she set off a media frenzy. These were the first Olympics for which China had recruited foreign-born athletes to represent China. While this development seemed sudden and novel, it was the culmination of China’s growing emergence as a destination for global immigration, as well as five years of new policies in the sports world.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Mar 25 2022

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Politics and Social Change

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