Post-National Citizenship

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• Article: Towards Post-National and Denationalized Citizenship. By SASKIA SASSEN.

URL = https://saskiasassen.com/PDFs/publications/Towards-post-national-and-denationalized-citizenship.pdf

"Most of the scholarship on citizenship has claimed a necessary connection to the national state. The transformations afoot today raise questions about this proposition in so far as they significantly alter those conditions which in the past fed that articulation between citizenship and the national state. If this is indeed the case, then we need to ask whether national conceptions of citizenship deserve the presumptions of legitimacy and primacy that they are almost always granted. This chapter interrogates the validity of this presumption and in so doing underlines the historicity of both the institution of citizenship and that of national state sovereignty. It is becoming evident today that far from being unitary, the institution of citizenship has multiple dimensions, only some of which might be inextricably linked to the national state. This chapter discusses the rapidly growing literature that is documenting and conceptualizing these issues, with particular attention to post-national conceptions of citizenship."

(https://saskiasassen.com/PDFs/publications/Towards-post-national-and-denationalized-citizenship.pdf)