Mutations in Citizenship

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2351944
AutoresAihwa Ong (University of California, Berkeley, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume23
Fascículo2-3
Páginas499-505
Data de publicação2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276406064831
OpenAlexW2075764903
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas153
Referências citadas11

Mutations in citizenship are crystallized in an ever-shifting landscape shaped by the flows of markets, technologies, and populations. We are moving beyond the citizenship-versus-statelessness model. First, the elements of citizenship (rights, entitlements, etc.) are becoming disarticulated from each other, and becoming re-articulated with universalizing criteria of neoliberalism and human rights. Such 'global assemblages' define zones of political entitlements and claims. Second, the space of the 'assemblage', rather than the national terrain, becomes the site for political mobilizations by diverse groups in motion. Three contrasting configurations are presented. In the EU zone, unregulated markets and migrant flows challenge liberal citizenship. In Asian zones, foreigners who display self-enterprising savoire faire gain rights and benefits of citizenship. In camps of the disenfranchised or displaced, sheer survival becomes the ground for political claims. Thus, particular constellations shape specific problems and resolutions to questions of contemporary living, further disarticulating and deterritorializing aspects of citizenship

Citizenship · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statelessness · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Socioeconomic Development in Asia