Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making

Towards Denationalized Citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID3877993
AuthorsSassen (0000-0002-3468-6923, Columbia University, corresponding author), Saskia Sassen (Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics)
Year2009
Volume21
Issue3
Pages227-254
Publication date2009-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0921374008350382
OpenAlexW2147849984
ISBN9781849506670
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited73

The changing articulation of citizenship is traced, both in relation to the national and the global. Conceiving of citizenship as an incompletely theorized contract between the state and the citizen, and locating her inquiry at that point of incompleteness, the author opens up the discussion to the making of the political. The central thesis is that the incompleteness of the formal institution of citizenship makes it possible for the outsider to claim for expanded inclusions. It is the outsider, whether a minoritized citizen or an immigrant, who has kept changing the institution across time and space. Times of unsettlement make this particularly visible. The current period of globalization is one such period, even though this is a partial unsettlement. New types of political actors are taking shape, changing the relationship between the state and the individual, and remaking the political

Citizenship · Globalization · Immigration · Institution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political theory and Gramsci · Turkey's Politics and Society

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